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able to scorcli the roots of the plants, tliey will 

 retain moisture longer, and will flourish more 

 luxuriantly. If a droopinjj; variety of fuchsia 

 is made to alternate with tliose of erect habit, 

 a xnass of bloom r.-ill be presented of great 

 depth and richness. Other showy plants 

 can of coui-ie be treated in the same v/ay. 



Take time by the forelock, and prepare 

 for j'our collections next year, by purchas- 

 ing or striking young plants. It requires 

 some forethought to keep up a succession of 

 windo^v fiov/ers without a greenhouse, but 

 it may be done. 



CAMPANULA EOTUNDIFOLIA ALBA, YAE. 



At the conclurling Exhibition of the 

 Royal Botanic Society, July 3, greiit in- 

 terest was excited by the magnificent np- 



(llfulia alba, distinguished from the parer.t 

 by the large size of its blooms, and its free 

 habit ofgrowth and flowering. As an exam- 

 ple of its capabilities, it is worthy of 

 mention that the plant from which 

 our sketch was made, measured 30 

 inches high, and 45 inches in circum- 

 f lence, and was loaded with large 

 ell-shaped, snow-white blooms in 

 the most uniform manner. This new 

 ^ mety was raised from seed in 1857; 

 It flowered the next year, and its dis- 

 t nntuess was immediately observable 

 ;-- i'r= y '^' ^" improved seminal variety, in 

 /■^^^>Nj^ 't^^ greater vigour of growth, and 

 -^ql \ 1 iiger and more rotund expansion of 

 :""-- K/l il wers. So great is the difference 



CAIIPANVLA EOTUNDIFOLIA ALBA, VAE. (CUII 



pearance of a new seedling Campanula, ex- 

 liibited by Mr. Chitty, of Stamford Hill, and 

 for which a certilleate was awarded. This 

 was an improved form'of Campanula rotun- 



C AilPAXULA l;OXLMl Ll'CI.IA. 



between it and the parci.t that it 

 mi^'ht be taken fur a distinct species, 

 md by some of the gardeners at the 

 show it would have been so regarded 

 but for the label setting forth its 

 01 igin. Mr. Chitty carefully preserved 

 tlip seedling plant, and has been pro- 

 pagating from it since, but has not 

 yet sent it out. His object in thus 

 elaying to make it public was to 

 prove its constancy, of which there 

 cannot now remain any doubt, as the 

 stock now consists of hundreds of 

 plants, and they are strictly uniform 

 in character, showing no tendency to 

 revert to the normal type. This will 

 ^•^ be a real gem for pot culture, and 

 also a very gracelul ornament where an entire 

 bed can be devoted to it, ns it will continue 

 in bloom from the end of June to the end of 

 September. To have it (or its parent) in 



