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A WHITE BLUE-BELL

. [To the Editor of the ,SPECTATOR.].

Sni,—Is your correspondent on country matters right in speaking of a "white blue-bell" ? Surely the flower is a bell, and if blue, a blue bell, and if white, a white bell.—I am, _Sir, &c., .

Forwood, Minchinhampton. L. E. P. WOLFERSTAN.

[Our correspondent raises an interesting point ; actually neither a "white blue-bell" nor a "white bell" is correct. The flower to which Sir William Beach Thomas referred was undoubtedly either a white wild hyacinth or a white hare-bell. Both, species_ are known popularly, as blue-bells, the blue variety of the latter being the true ' blue-bell of Seotland."—ED. Spectator.]

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