grows along the roadsides will alleviate the pain. Rub the juice of the 
stems on the parts affected. I have also had relief from soda, alcohol, 
green soap and Baume Analgesique. Try all the remedies, but the 
poison has to run its course. 
Asiatic Campanula 
This is a very valuable plant. It is a perennial, very hardy and 
self-propagating. It thrives in a shady, dry situation though it likes 
the sun also. It grows about three feet high and has a fine spike of 
white bell-like flowers which are deeply indented like all the flowers of 
this large and interesting Campanula family. 
I suppose these Campanulas were native in Asia originally, but the 
seeds were brought to me by a cousin from Switzerland where they 
were being disseminated by a society which encourages the growing 
of wild flowers. I have made a special study of the propagation of 
these Asiatic Campanulas because I think they are so lovely and so 
valuable, and I hope that they may become known throughout this 
country and be grown in every neighborhood where gardeners work 
and love their plants. 
The plants grow best in garden soil and leaf mould. The seeds 
fall to the ground when they are ripe and mature the following July. 
The strength of the little plant seems to go into a tiny root tuber, so 
the first leaf is so small and insignificant that many people do not 
recognize it and think their seeds have not come up. This leaf of 
the seedling is about one half to an inch long and looks like a crumpled 
violet leaf. When the plant is one year old a small anaemic stem grows 
up and a tiny blossom comes out. One would never think the plant 
was ever going to amount to anything. Each year the plant de- 
velops, and when it is three years old it sends up spikes nearly 
one half an inch in diameter with racemes of bloom from 8 to 10 inches 
long. The root of the developed plant is a mass of strong short fibers 
attached to the tuber formed when a seedling. After four years it 
is best to take the plants up and divide them. If this is not done the 
plants will die in two or three years more, but there is never any danger 
of the bed dying out for the ground is always full of tubers of various 
ages. When the plant is taken up it will be found that the tuber has 
become woody and can be cut apart. Use a pruning knife, cut through 
the hard roots. One will find little pink buds all around this hard 
center, like miniature Peony buds. These are the new flower buds. 
Replant the divided roots. 
Virginia E. Verplanck. 
