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The Ostrowskia Magnifica

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 14, 1889

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 15, No. 2.

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The Ostrowskia Magnifica

ONE of the most recent discoveries is a plant of the Campanulaceæ, or order of bell-flowers. It produces a stem reaching five feet in height, and the flowers, arranged along this stem, are over six inches in diameter. These huge bells are of a pale lavender color, as showy as they are monstrous. Begel, the botanist of St. Petersburg, seems to be the first to have taken note of it, and that it is wholly new to science; so it has been named by him for a Russian patron of science, Mr. Ostrowsky. Ostrowskia magnifica, as it is now to be, was discovered in Bokhara in 1884; but it has already found its way into cultivation in European gardens.