. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 79G The American Florist. Dec. ^9'. FLORISTS' WINDOW SCREEN. blossoms of the latter have a certain dis- tinctness of character. My seedlings are from seeds taken in 1901. The summer was hot and dry, and wishing to test whether the plant produced fertile seeds, I gathered some shoots, after Ho wering, from C. isophylla, from its white variety, and from C. Bar- rellierii, keeping each distinct by wrapping each securely in some newspapers. They were overlooked until this spring; I then rubbed out the seed, saved thos
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. 79G The American Florist. Dec. ^9'. FLORISTS' WINDOW SCREEN. blossoms of the latter have a certain dis- tinctness of character. My seedlings are from seeds taken in 1901. The summer was hot and dry, and wishing to test whether the plant produced fertile seeds, I gathered some shoots, after Ho wering, from C. isophylla, from its white variety, and from C. Bar- rellierii, keeping each distinct by wrapping each securely in some newspapers. They were overlooked until this spring; I then rubbed out the seed, saved those from each sort separately and to my great surprise got many seedlings from each. Each sort has produced plants very like the seed parent, in general character; but from among the two blue varieties I have been able to select some plants with dis- tinct woolly foliage, much more than is seen in C. Mayii. 1 have three or four at least whose leaves are densely covered with minute white hairs. I made no attempt at cross-fertilizing; the bees had an unrestricted range of the plants, and having asmallplant of C. Mayii in flower at the same time, the woolly character in the progeny may have been derived from that. Singular to state, one of my large plants of C. Barrellierii, the foliage of which is of bare deep green, this season put forth one strong shoot of distinctly woolly character, which I took ofi' and attempted to root, but failed to do so. I have been informed upon authority which I could not but accept, that in cases the variegated leaved C. Balchiniana has sported to the woolly-leaved C. Mayii. I am told this could not possibly be. But I have learned enough of the family of campanulas to impress me with the fact that it is unwise to dogmatize about them. They have within them evident possibilities which should lead the most audacious among us not to be too positive in any statements we may make about them. Vancouver, B. C.— The Vancouver Floral Company has added two mor
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