CAMPANULA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CAMPANULA. 



Countess of Orkney, Do7ikchiari, which 

 comes very early, and the old japonica. 

 C reticiilatn is the handsomest of the 

 Camellias, but needs a warm and shel- 

 tered ]3]ace. 



CAMPANULA {HairbeU, BeHflower). 

 — A large, beautiful, a4| precious group 

 for the flower garden. The alpine kinds 

 are charming" for rock-gardens, and not as 

 a rule difficult to cultivate. A group of 

 kinds somewhat larger than the high 

 alpines adorn rocks and old walls on 

 the mountains, and maybe used for these in 

 our gardens. Some are pretty window- 



Alpine Hairbell in rock garden. 



plants, thriving in dry rooms ; numbers are 

 good border and edgmg plants of easy cul- 

 ture ; the tall and straggling kinds admir- 

 able for the wild garden, or rough woody 

 places or hedgerows, but these tall species 

 iiiust not he used much in the flower 

 garden or mixed borders, as their time of 

 bloom is short and they are very apt to 

 •overrun rarer plants. Some of the 

 annual kinds, if well grown, are showy. 

 The Canterbury Bell is one of the finest 

 of biennials, the tall chimney Campanula 

 a \ery handsome and precious plant. 

 C. Allioni, an alpme kind forming a 



network of succulent roots, with stemless 

 rosettes of leaves an inch long, from 

 which arise stalkless erect flowers. It 

 thrives in exposed positions in the rock- 

 garden in a moist, free, and sandy loam, 

 dislikes limestone. Division. Alps. 



C. alpina {Alpine Hairbell). — Covered 

 with stiff down, giving it a slightly gray 

 appearance, 5 to lo in. high ; flowers of 

 fine dark blue, scattered along the stems, 

 margins of mixed border, and the rock- 

 garden. Division or seeds. Carpathians. 



C. Barrelieri has prostrate . one- 

 flowered stems, rounded heart-shaped 

 lea\es and blue large flowers. On rocks 

 by the seaside about Naples ; a good 

 trailing rock-plant, thriving also in win- 

 dows. 



C. csespitosa {Tufted J-/'airbell).—h 

 charming little plant, its roots ramble 

 very much, and it soon forms large patches 

 in any garden soil. Excellent for edgings 

 and rocks, the angles of steps in rock- 

 gardens, and where flagstones are used 

 to form paths it is one of the plants that 

 run about among the stones with pretty 

 effect. The white kind is as free and 

 useful as the purple one. 



C. carpatica {Caj-pathian Hairbell). — 

 A dwarf plant of free-flowering habit, 

 the light-blue flowers large and cup- 

 shaped, borne on foot-stalks 12 to 15 in. 

 high in July and August in succession. 

 There are pale and white forms of this 

 plant and the hybrid forms, none of them 

 better than the wild plant. 



C. cenisia {Mont Cenis Hairbell). — A 

 high alpine plant growing among Saxifraga 

 biflora on the sides of glaciers, making 

 little show above ground but vigorous 

 below, and compact rosettes of light- 

 green leaves, with blue flowers. It should 

 have a sandy or gritty and moist soil on 

 the rock-garden among the smallest 

 plants. Division. 



C. fragilis {Brittle Hairbell).-i:\\e 

 young branches are coated with soft down ; 

 the flowering branches prostrate, 12 or 15 

 in. long ; the flowers i in. or more 

 in diameter, delicate blue. A variety C. 

 hirsuta is covered with stiff down, and 

 looks almost woolly. Division, cuttings, 

 and seeds. 



C. garganica {Gart^ano Hairbell). — A 

 compact plant, the flowers in branching 

 racemes, pale blue, towards the centre 

 shading oft'to white in summer, thriving in 

 a rock garden or a Ijorder ; but, owing to 

 its pendent flowers, a good place for it 

 is on a rocky edge, over which its masses 

 of flowers may hang. Division or by cut- 

 tings taken in early spring. 



C. glomerata {Clustered Belljioiver). — 



