CAMPANULA. 
very dense mats of its clumps, with yellow fragrant flowers, whose 
yellow is edged with purple, and their segments protracted into a 
long tail, which has earned it its secondary name of C. appendiculata. 
It should, when acquired, have the treatment of C. dioneaefolia, in a 
choice corner of moist ground. 
Campantla.—tThis august race is so vast and complicated that 
the best thing is to plunge into it at once and go through its serried 
ranks with care, seeing the huge confusion that there reigns, and the 
necessity of weeding the many beautiful sheep from the many goats in 
the family. Treatment must be understood, in all cases without 
special note, to imply perfectly ordinary soil for the large-growing 
species: for the choicer alpines choose crevices or banks of well-made 
light limy (almost invariably) soil in the rock-work or in the moraine 
in open positions ; while for the white woolly-leaved Levantines hot 
dry chinks and moraines and sheltered sunny places in deep and light 
and stony soil are indicated, with protection in raw climates against 
winter wet. All can be profusely raised from seed, though many 
can, with equal precision and far greater rapidity, be multiplied 
by division. And all have the very special advantage (not by any 
means generally realised or acted on with sufficient liveliness of 
gratitude) of blooming in late summer, when the rock-garden is too 
often lamenting its early show in a green desolation, The R.H.S. 
Journal for June 1907 contains a valuable paper on this race by the 
late Col. Beddome, though naturally it allows of amplification, and in 
some cases of correction, and in others the suggestion of a different 
verdict. In the following list I name none but perennials or beautiful 
biennials and monocarpics, with exceptions made in the case of a 
few specially meritorious annuals. And for the future it may be 
taken that almost any Campanula not included in this résumé may 
prove a weed or an annual or both, unless a special description 
guarantees its novelty and its beauty. 
C. abietina, a well-known plant in gardens by now, is found in the 
stony summit-ridges of Peristeri, about Janina, and so forth. It 
forms wide mats, made up of narrow-leaved brilliant green rosettes 
packed together, from which rise very fine stems of a foot or so, 
carrying wide-open solid stars of violet, closely resembling those of 
C. patula, with which this much dwarfer and perennial species has 
been confused. But though perennial, indeed, it requires frequent 
division in the garden if its wide mats are not to exhaust themselves 
and die out. It is a beautiful species, and thrives in light and stony 
ground. 
C. acuminata = C’. americana. 
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