See also:

• CAMPANULA (Bell-flower)

CAMPANULA (See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

Bell-See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower)  , in See also:

• BOTANY (from Gr. l3or6v17, plant; ,66vicety, to graze)

botany, a genus of See also:

• PLANTS

plants containing about 230 See also:

• SPECIES

species, found in the temperate parts of the See also:

• NORTHERN

northern hemisphere, chiefly in the Mediterranean region . The name is taken from the See also:

• BELL
• BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
• BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
• BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
• BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
• BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
• BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
• BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
• BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
• BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
• BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
• BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)

bell-shaped See also:

• FLOWER (Lat. flos, floris; Fr. fleur)
• FLOWER, SIB

flower . The plants are perennial, rarely See also:

• ANNUAL

annual or biennial, herbs with spikes or racemes of See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white, See also:

• BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue or See also:

• LILAC

lilac See also:

• FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

flowers . Several are native in See also:

• BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain; See also:

• CAMPANULA (Bell-flower)

Campanula rotund folic is the See also:

• HAREBELL (sometimes wrongly written HAIItBELL)

harebell (q.v.) or Scotch bluebell, a See also:

• COMMON

common plant on pastures and heaths, the delicate slender See also:

• STEM (O. Eng. staefn, stemn, cf. Du. stain, Ger. Stamm, &c., probably related to " staff ")

stem bears one or a few drooping bell-shaped flowers; C . Rapunculus, rampion or ramps, is a larger plant with a panicle of broadly campanulate red-See also:

• PURPLE

purple or blue flowers, and occurs on gravelly roadsides and hedgebanks, but is rare . It is cultivated, but not extensively, for its fleshy roots, which are used, either boiled or raw, as See also:

• SALAD (Med. Lat. salata, salted, pickled, salare, to sprinkle with salt)

salad . Many of the species are grown in gardens for their elegant flowers; the See also:

• DWARF (A.S. dweorg, D. dwerg, Icel. dvergr)

dwarf forms are excellent for pot culture, rockeries or fronts of See also:

• BORDERS, THE

borders . C . See also:

• MEDIUM

Medium, See also:

• CANTERBURY
• CANTERBURY, CHARLES

Canterbury bell, with large blue, purple and white flowers, is a favourite and handsome biennial, of which there are numerous varieties . C. persicifolia, a perennial with more open flowers, is also a well-known border plant, with numerous forms, including white and blue-flowered and single and See also:

• DOUBLE
• DOUBLE (from the Mid. Eng. duble, the form which gives the present pronunciation, through the Old Er. duble, from Lat. duplus, twice as much)

double . C. glomerata, which has sessile flowers crowded in heads on the stems and branches, found native in Britain in chalky and dry pastures, is known in numerous varieties as a border plant .. C. pyramidalis, with numerous flowers forming a tall pyramidal inflorescence, is a handsome species, There are also a number of alpine species suitable for rockeries, such as C. alpina, caucasica, caespitosa and others .

The plants are easily cultivated . The perennials are propagated by dividing the roots or by See also:

• YOUNG
• YOUNG, A
• YOUNG, ARTHUR (1741-1820)
• YOUNG, BRIGHAM (1801-1877)
• YOUNG, CHARLES MAYNE (1777–1856)
• YOUNG, EDWARD (1683–1765)
• YOUNG, JAMES (1811-1883)
• YOUNG, THOMAS (1773-1829)

young cuttings in See also:

• SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring, or by seeds .