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is pleasant to plant common Flax, if you have ample 
room ; it is a superb blue ; to many persons the 
blossom is unfamiliar, and is always of interest. Its 
lovely flowers have been much sung in English 
verse. The Salpiglossis, shown on the opposite 
page, is in its azure tint a lovely flower, though it is 
a kinsman of the despised Petunia. 
H ow the Campanulaceae enriched the beauty and 
the blueness of the garden. We had our splendid 
clusters of Canterbury Bells, both blue and white. 
I have told elsewhere of our love for them in child- 
hood. Equally dear to us was a hardy old Campan- 
ula whose full name I know not, perhaps it is the 
Pyramidalis; it is shown on page 263, the very 
plant my mother set out, still growing and bloom- 
ing; nothing in the garden is more gladly welcomed 
from year to year. It partakes of the charm shared 
by every bell-shaped flower, a simple form, but an 
ever pleasing one. We had also the Campanula 
persicifolia and trachelium, and one we called Blue- 
bells of Scotland, which was not the correct name. 
It now has died out, and no one recalls enough of 
its exact detail to learn its real name. The showiest 
bell-flower was the Platycodon grandiflorum, the Chi- 
nese or Japanese Bell-flower, shown on page 264. 
Another name is the Balloon-flower, this on account 
of the characteristic buds shaped like an inflated bal- 
loon. It is a lovely blue in tint, though this photo- 
graph was taken from a white-flowered plant in the 
white border at Indian Hill. The Giant Bell-flower 
is a Jin de siecle blossom named Ostrowskia, with 
flowers four inches deep and six inches in diameter; 
