CAMPANULA. 
C. pulvinaris, however, from Cappadocia, is one of the choicest, 
forming a neat tuft, small and dense, with minute narrow leaves and 
well-built lovely blossoms. 
C’. punctata is a slight noble species from Northern Asia, where you 
may often see it by the pathside in the Alps of Japan. It runs freely 
here and there, here and there sending up its soft oval heart-shaped 
leaves on their long stalks; then come the flower-spikes, about a 
foot high or more, from which hang out a few of the most beautiful 
long bells, waxy-creamy pink, peppered inside with red dots. This 
campanula looks as if it should become a real weed with us, yet com- 
paratively rarely proves a success out of doors in England unless in 
very light and sandy soils, and in full sun. Two most notable garden 
plants, however, clearly derive from C. punctata. These are C. van 
Houttei and C. Burghaltii, the one with long purple bells. and the other 
much nearer to C. punctata, but both thriving with the utmost hearti- 
ness, and proving of the utmost preciousness alike in rock-garden or 
border ; uniting to the grace of C. punctata a much more leafy, free 
and energetic habit suggesting the influence of C. latifolia. Of the 
two the smaller seems to be C. van Houttei, forming tufts and colonies 
of narrowish-leaved stems of about a foot, from which depend those 
long and delicate bells. The origin of both these is unknown, and 
it is even quite possible that C. van Houttei at least may be merely a 
garden development of some specially vigorous form of C. punctata 
itself ; they both take after that species, anyhow, in blooming rather 
early for their race—towards mid-June. 
C. pusilla (Haenke)—C. Bellardii, Ten., q.v. 
C. pyramidalis is too tall and stout and graceless for the rock- 
garden, with its gaunt stiff spires, so closely stuck with a mass of large 
flowers that will not open properly in a unanimous spike of splendour, 
but only here and there a stray saucer of white or blue at a time, most 
ill-furnished and untidy in effect. 
C. Raddeana comes from the Alps of Transcaucasia, and is a useful 
and charming new arrival, in aspect suggestive of Symphyandra armena, 
but with larger blossoms. These are of a most glorious violet, in 
design like those of a Harebell, but longer and fuller, gracefully 
carried on stems of 9 inches or so, while the basal leaves of the tuft 
are specially attractive—round, glossy, heart-shaped, delicately 
scalloped and toothed at the edge, and spraying about this way and 
that on their long fine stems. C. Raddeana grows well and increases 
rapidly in any good open soil and place. 
C. radicosa (C. Boissiert, Sprun.) sends out an unstinted supply of 
weak flopping stems, which carry one-sided leafy sprigs or spikes of 
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