16 JOuUN SAUL’S 
The plant is of pyramidal form, attaining a height of from 23 to 5 feet, 
branching close to the ground, the lower branches being from 12 to 15 inches 
in length, and extending in a horizontal position. 
The leaves, which are beautifully undulated, vary in the earlier stages of 
growth, from a green to a bronzy green shade, and are from 5 to 7 inches in 
length, by about a quarter of an inch in width. As the plants get stronger, the 
leaves at the ends of all the principal branches assume a bright orange red color, 
and become more elongated, generally being from 10 to 15 inches in length, 
forming magnificent bright colored plumes, and giving the plant a most elegant 
and picturesque appearance. 
From its extremely graceful habit and rich colors, this plant produces a strik- 
ing effect when planted in large beds or masses; it also forms a very handsome 
object as a single specimen for the centre of a vase or small bed, and is invalu- 
able as a pot plant for autumn greenhouse decorations. 
Price per plant, 80 cents each. Per packet of seeds, 25 cents 
CAMPANULA MEDIUM CALYCANTHEMA. 
Few of our hardy border flowers are more pleasing, or of more value as 
garden ornaments, than the old Canterbury Bell, called Campanula Mediwm by 
botanists—a biennial plant, of pyramidal growth, which inhabits Central Europe, 
and was introduced to our collections nearly three centuries ago, but which still 
holds its own; and which, whether we regard the forms with single or double 
blossoms, purple, blue, rose, or white, of which it gives a rich harvest, stands 
unrivalled for its beauty. 
The ordinary single form bears flowers of the shape of a broad cleanly- 
modelled and open bell, and the usual double forms are made up by the crowding 
into the interior of this bell of certain petaloid.out-growths of the floral whorl, 
producing a flower on the model of that of a double Petunia. The variety 
we are now describing, takes quite a different development. In habit the plant 
resembles the well-known old blue or white Canterbury Bell, ‘‘ but the corolla 
is much larger, and the calyx in addition is enlarged to nearly 4 in. in diameter, 
presenting the form of a saucer, and changed from its ordinary green color to 
the same hue as that of the corolla.’”’ The broad bell-shaped corolla of the single 
flower is perfectly formed, but instead of the usual small leafy calyx, this organ 
becomes much enlarged, ana takes on a petaloid character ; and it is this which 
forms the peculiarity of the flower, and adds so much both to its interest and to 
its beauty. (See opposite page.) ‘ 
Price per plant, or packet of seeds, 50 cents each. 
