CAMPANULA. 
sure remedy is nothing more or less than an orange—which, if cut 
across and eaten out with a spoon, then leaves you the squeezed 
drained halves to put about in the rock-garden, where they will at 
once attract every slug from miles around, which can thus be captured 
by the hundred each morning and consigned to their just doom. It 
is true that this may make your garden look a little as if a beanfeast 
had there lately raged ; however, even this is better than rings of zinc 
or bran, and incomparably better than finding your C. Raineri in the 
morning a bare ruined choir where late the sweet buds sang—to say 
nothing of the economical fact that you have already had the felicity 
of eating your orange. For C. pseudo-Raineri, see under C. tur- 
binata. 
C. ramosissima, the brilliant annual often called attica, Loreyi, or 
drabaefolia. 
C. rapunculoeides, the most insatiable and irrepressible of beautiful 
weeds. If once its tall and arching spires of violet bells prevail on 
you to admit it to your garden, neither you nor its choice inmates will 
ever know peace again. 
C. Rapunculus, an English biennial, not in the least like Rapun- 
culoeides, whose name says that it has taken C. Rapunculus for a 
model. For this is rather more in the style of C. patula, but with 
uglyish narrower cups sitting more stiffly to the spike, and in all ways 
vastly inferior, though variable. 
C. Regina (Alboft)=C. mirabilis, g.v. 
C. Reisert is a handsome rock-species, in the cousinship of C. 
anchusaeflora, but an improvement in having much larger wider 
blossoms, on stiff stout stems. There is a variety too, C. R. Leonis, 
with sprays that never branch. Both are weak floppets, and both 
have the style sticking far out of the expanded flower. 
C. retrorsa, a Levantine annual in the way of C. Loefflingi. 
C. Reuteriana, from Asia Minor, comes very near to C. strigosa, q.v. 
C. rhomboidalis is well known to all who have seen the alpine fields 
one undulating sea of sapphire waves beneath its sheaves of noble 
deep-blue Harebells gathered loosely towards the top of those stalwart 
stems, clothed in rhomboidal toothy foliage all the way up. In culti- 
vation this beautiful thing is no less stalwart and splendid in any 
border, but its 2 feet or 18 inches fit it chiefly for bolder sweeps in the 
rock-garden, among such old friends and neighbours as Anemone 
alpina. Especially lovely, too, are its varieties, which have so far 
been almost all spared the indignity of names. These are of every 
tone, from dark midnight-blue, through lilacs and delicate china-blues, 
deeper or paler, to clear silvery tones, and at last to virgin white. 
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