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Carl Purely, Ukiah, California 
All CAMPANULAS are known as Bellflowers, and they are flowers for everyone; 
hardy, of easy culture and free-blooming. They thrive year after year — except the 
Canterbury Bells, which live only two 3'cars — and respond to extra care most liberally. 
We usually associate them with rockeries, and with permanent borders and masses, 
but llic>' well repa\' the extra care (hey gel in beds. 
Perennial Bellflowers. 
Of the strong-growing 
sorts, the jirince of all is 
the Chimney Bellfiower, 
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There arc varieties which 
make compact plants 4 
10 5 feet high, while 
others grows as high as 10 
feet, with a perfect sheet 
of handsome flowers pro- 
duced through months of 
I he fall. These are very 
fine in a mass by them- 
selves, or alternating with 
perennial larkspurs which 
they admirably supple- 
ment. Strong plants, pot- 
ted in spring, make very 
fine veranda or court 
ornaments, or for house- 
hold decoration on special 
occasions. They group 
well with hollyhocks, 
also. 
Campanula Grossekii 
is a most excellent plant 
for man)' pin'poses. 
Either few or many in the 
garden will give a fine 
effect with the purialish 
lavender, slender bells. 
It brightens a shady bed, 
while to plant a mass- 
planting with fo.xgloves 
harmonizes well in habit, 
and continues the season 
of such a bed for months 
after the fo.xgloves have 
(lone flowering. About 2 
feet high. 
Campanula glomerata 
is an entirel)- new l>'pe of 
Bellllower for California. 
They are strong-growing 
perennials, with heads of 
fine blue flowers, and 
form colonies like C. per- 
sici fill ill. The stems are 
a fool or so high and they 
mass well. 
C. glomerata acaulis is 
the same, but the flowers 
grow down in among the 
foliage. Their cultin-e is 
in an\- garden soil, and sunshine is 
Campanula persicifol 
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preferred. 
Campanula Carpatica forms 
and through a long season pro 
allrarti\-e [ilanl. 
1 round cushion of prell>- lca\-es 
luces fine blue flowers on single 
I foot or more across, 
stems. It is a most 
