Campanula Latifolia.
Broad-leaved Bellflower; Nat. Ord. Campanulaceæ.
A British species, very much resembling C. grandis, but somewhat taller, and flowering a little earlier; the latter quality has induced me to mention it, as it offers a fine spike for cutting purposes before the above is ready.
Culture, uses, and propagation, the same as for C. grandis.
Flowering period, June and July.
Campanula Persicifolia.
Peach-leaved Bellflower; Old Common Names, "Peach-bels" and "Steeple-bels"; Nat. Ord. Campanulaceæ.
This good "old-fashioned" perennial has had a place in English gardens for several hundred years; it is still justly and highly esteemed. It is a well-known plant, and as the specific name is descriptive of the leaves, I will only add a few words of Gerarde's respecting the flowers: "Alongst the stalke growe many flowers like bels, sometime white, and for the most part, of a faire blewe colour; but the bels are nothing so deepe as they of the other kindes, and these also are more delated and spred abroade then any of the reste." The varieties include single blue (type) and white, double blue, and different forms of double white.