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HENDERSON’S 
PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
Good Old-Fashioned Canterbury Bell 
These quaint old-fashioned flowering plants, illustrated to the right, deserve to be more exten- 
sively grown. Their immense bell-shaped flowers of lilac, white, pink and purple shades completely 
envelop the plants and make a gorgeous show. There are single- and double-flowering strains, 
and a strain called "Cup and Saucer” Campanula, the flowers of which sit in a large saucer. All 
are hardy biennials, flowering the second season from seed, and are unrivalled plants for grouping 
in garden borders. 
A Well - Planted Hardy Border 
Too often, in planting hardy borders, promiscuous kinds and colors of flowers are intermingled, 
resulting in a confused and inharmonious mass, one color and kind killing the effect of another, 
etc. Below we illustrate a well-planted border. Note the large isolated clumps of Iris and other 
hardy flowering plants, separated by flowering and evergreen shrubs. Together they give a wealth 
of coloring, light and shade, the shrubs forming excellent backgrounds against which the colors of 
the flowers are vividly contrasted. 
“Only a Mullein” 
Is shown on the right (page 97), but it is 
a very handsome variety, over 7 feet high, 
from the Levant, and is known as "Ver- 
bascum Olympicum.” When grown in a 
commanding situation and when in flower, 
its stately form is strikingly effective. The 
plant is perfectly hardy, and the large 
rosette of silvery gray foliage is very orna- 
mental. The flowers of bright yellow are 
borne the second or third year from seed, 
on a tall, branching stem, and are very 
showy. After they have faded the plants 
should be thrown away. 
