Varieties of Among the dwarf varieties, only a few inches in height, 



Campanula cacspitosa called also pum'tla and pusilla is a treasure for rock 

 gardens, producing myriads of tiny bells either mauve or white ; 

 C. haylodgensis is rather larger, and is probably a cross between 

 casspitosa and carpatica ; garganica forms a creeping tuft 

 smothered with starry open mauve flowers with a white centre, 

 and is particularly pretty when it establishes itself in crannies in a 

 wall hirsuta and hirsuta alba are two good varieties of 

 garganica. Among those a little taller, rising to eight or twelve 

 inches rotundifolia y our English Harebell, and its larger 

 varieties, Hostii and Hostii alba are both particularly pretty and 

 useful the stems are stronger than in the type, and produce 

 more flowers ; carpatica^ with large open bells, white or purple, 

 makes effective clumps. 



For grouping in semi-wild spots, or for the borders, the best 

 are grandis, persicifolia^ latifolia, macrantha, and ailiariafolia^ 

 and the biennials medium and pyramidalis. 



The variety persicifolia grandiflora is very lovely, and is 

 perhaps the most perfect in form of any the bells are large and 

 wide, and are well placed for eighteen inches or more down a 

 firm stalk three or four feet in height. The plants increase so 

 fast that they must be divided every second year to keep them 

 in good condition. The double form Moorbeimi is effective at 

 a distance for borders, making a denser mass of flowers, but all 

 the grace of the large open bell has vanished, and to me it 

 appears mostly useful as evidence that Campanulas should be 

 left undoubted ! 



Campanula grandis (syn., latiloba] runs the persicifolia 

 close for effect, though it is never so graceful. It bears long 

 dense spikes of flowers set close to the stem and more starry in 



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