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you multiply your plants, and each plant that you take off is the 

 stronger for being severed ; but the plants thus used decline every 

 year ; therefore, keep up a succession of plants from the seed, by 

 all means. As to soil, this plant is not very particular, though it 

 likes a good mould ; but it is very particular in its aversion to 

 manure, which is destruction to it. It is one of the most orna- 

 mental plants that can be conceived, and suits any situation well. 



Campanula, or Canterbury-Bell. — Lat. C. medium. A 



very pretty German plant ; throws up numerous branches in April 

 and May, garnished thickly with long and hairy leaves, and in 

 June and July blows abundance of very handsome pendulous 

 flowers, either white or light blue : larger than a common thimble, 

 but somewhat resembling one in shape. It is biennial, and should 

 be sowed every spring either in a hot-bed or not, according to 

 convenience, and then pricked out when it comes into rough leaf. 

 So Itt it remain till the autumn, when you will plant it either in 

 the borders or in the pots where you intend it to blow. Cam- 

 panula, peach-leaved, — Lat. C. persicifolia. The last of the 

 Campanulas that I shall mention. It is a native of the northern 

 parts of Europe ; a perennial plant that also sends up a great many 

 shoots in the spring of the year, and bears flowers of the same 

 colours as the last, but some are double and some single, and 

 all are much broader than those of the last-mentioned plant, 

 but are shorter in length. Propagate by dividing the roots ; 

 or, more tediously, by sowing the seeds as soon as ripe. All these 

 plants are handsome, and should form a part of the collection of 

 every one who aims at having an attractive flower-garden and 

 no one of them but the first is particular as to soil. 



449. CAMPION, the rose. — Lat. Agrostema coronaria. A 

 plant originally from Lyons and Italy, one or two feet high, and 

 blowing a bright red flower from June to September. Other 

 varieties have white and double flowers. Propagated by sowing 

 the seed as soon as ripe, in light earth exposed to the sun, and 

 planting out the following March. Also by sowing in a hot-bed 

 or in borders in the spring. Is hardy, and will sow itself when in 

 a warm and dryish soil. 



450. CANDY-TUFT, the purple.— h^tt. Iberis umhellata. An 

 annual plant from the south of France. About two feet high, and 

 blows, in June and July, a great abundance of purplish flowers. 

 Propagated by seed sown in beds where it is to blow. Any soil 



