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placing them there, more room is left in the borders for 

 other flowers, and they will bloom and look gay for many 

 years without behig lifted and separated, though that pro- 

 cess requires to be submitted to occasionally. Fill up the 

 border with common roses — the old cabbage, the white, 

 the damask, — these old friends used to grow and flower 

 without all the care the new favourites get ; keep pretty 

 large clumps of Canterbury bells, columbines, snapdragons, 

 foxgloves, pinks, stove carnations and pansies, and with a 

 judicious mixture of beds of annuals, the borders will be 

 always gay and full. All the varieties of campanulas are 

 pretty, from the old tall Canterbury bells down to the 

 pretty little harebell, Campanula pumila. They are easily 

 propagated by dividing the roots, indeed, rather too easily 

 sometimes, for they are apt to run over the borders; and 

 there is one species wdiich is as difficult to get rid of when 

 once it has established itself as either 'the white bindweed 

 or the rank bishopweed. I have seen a very pretty back 

 border made with alternate plants of the blue and white 

 Campanula pumila; and Campanula Carpatica 3ind alba 

 are recommended for beds and edgings. The seeds are 

 small, and should be only slightly covered with soil ; the 

 plants will not flower till the second year, except of course 

 those which are annuals, or those which are sown early and 

 raised on a slight hotbed. One objection to the plan of 

 growing plants in beds being the empty look such have in 

 early spring, or even when newly planted ; it might be an 

 improvement, I think, if something of a permanent border 

 were planted round these beds, either of flowers that 



