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Turbinate Bell-Flower: Platycodon

Having campanulas in general for a moment before us, we must embrace the opportunity to mention two very fine species, which are usually ranged in the genus Platycodon. Number one is Campanula (or Platycodon) antumnalis, a handsome perennial plant, rising a foot and a half high, bearing in the autumn bold panicles of brilliant blue, white, lilac, and dove-coloured flowers--for there are several varieties, and some of them are double. The other is Campanula (or Platycodon) grandiflora, a more robust plant than the last, and bearing larger flowers earlier in the season, although they often flower together in the late summer months. This produces very large glossy flowers that are exceedingly beautiful. These are raised from seed or by division of the roots. They are scarcely hardly in London, but in the southern counties may be planted out in any good border, and will take care of themselves. We have always grown them in pots, as companion plants to the noble chimney campanula (C. pyramidalis), and have been well rewarded for the trouble.