CAMPANULA PERSICIFOLIA. 
PEACH-LEAVED BELL-FLOWER. 
Class. Order. 
PENTANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
CAM PAN PLACE® . 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
S. Europe. 
2~ feet. 
July, Aug. 
Perennial*. 
in 1596. 
No. 164. 
Campanula, signifying- a little bell, is noticed un- 
der No. 130. Persicifolia, from persica, the system- 
atic name of the peach ; and folium, a leaf. 
This is a very old inhabitant of the English gar- 
den. It has been duly estimated, and very gene- 
rally cultivated through many generations. There 
are several varieties of it, as the single white, and 
single blue, and double varieties of each colour ; also 
some of larger growth than the usual sorts, which 
rise nearly four feet high. Their shades of blue 
likewise vary in degree of brilliancy. 
The Campanula persicifolia is treated of by Ger- 
ard, in his Herbal of 1596, and under precisely the 
same name as we now know it. The single varieties 
have generally given place to the double ones ; but 
whichever is the received favourite, it cannot fail to 
prove ornamental to the mixed assemblage of sum- 
mer beauties. 
It is not in the least degree fastidious as to soil or 
situation ; it never fails to flourish, which is a valu- 
able acquisition in a gay plant. The roots will al- 
ways afford sufficient increase, and these may be 
divided in spring or autumn. 
Ilort. Kew. 2, v. 1, 347. 
