CAMPANULA NI'TIDA. 
SMOOTH-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
4 inches. 
July. 
Perennial. 
in 1731. 
No. 224. 
Very few names more correctly designate any 
particular character of an extensive genus, than 
Campanula does the present, signifying a little bell ; 
it is from the Latin, as is the word Nitida, signify- 
ingneat, shining, smooth; either of which meanings 
may with propriety be applied to this plant. 
The Capanula nitida is a desirable little subject 
for cultivation, either in the borders or in pots. Its 
low stature, and neat upright growth, claim for it a 
situation in the foreground, where plants of a more 
rambling habit may not hide its delicate flowers, or 
its neat little tufts of deep green leaves. 
It is particularly hardy, and will grow well in 
any aspect, and produce its flowering stems; but 
notwithstanding this, flowers will not always be the 
consequence. We have seen it remain in a very 
light, rather peaty, soil, for several years without 
maturing a flower; but on being put into a small 
pot of tolerably rich soil, or planted in an open si- 
tuation, in rather strong well manured loam; its 
flowers were freely produced in perfection. Its rigid 
foliage always possesses a neatness, and character of 
health, which make it desirable for pot culture. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 346. 
