CAMPAN ULA SPECIO'SA. 
SHOWY BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAMPANULACE M. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
Siberia. 
If feet. 
June, Aug. 
Perennial. 
in 1824. 
No. 228. 
Campanula, from the Latin, a little bell ; speciosa, 
beautiful, handsome, showy. 
The genus Capanula, has long enjoyed the at- 
tention of English florists, under the like title; or 
under the more familiar one of Canterbury-bells; a 
term originally applied to a particular species, but 
now frequently given indiscriminately to all those of 
tall growth. 
Although the Capanula speciosa exhibits a depth 
of colour equal, if not superior, to any other of the 
same family, and is a gay plant forthemingled flower 
border, still the term speciosa, in a genus of such 
specious character, is very indefinite, and the usual 
English translation, showy, is comparatively less 
characteristic than beautiful ; for size renders several 
species more showy, but not more beautiful. It bears 
resemblance to the species, glomerata, and coronata. 
For colour it is preferable to either of them; but is 
not so perpetual a flowerer as the glomerata. 
It demands very little of the cultivator’s attention, 
a recommendation not often despised. It may be 
divided for increase, and will grow in any common 
garden soil. 
Loudon’s Ency. of Plants, sp. 2663. 
