form ; it also needs frequent division, and any little bit makes a Varieties of 

 flowering tuft very quickly. For the wood or wild garden it Campanula 

 is invaluable ; clumps of the purple look magnificent with 

 white Foxgloves, and the white can hardly be out of place 

 anywhere in the borders, and is just the right height for 

 grouping with Delphinium belladonna. 



C. alliaricefolia, flowering in July with all the other 

 kinds just mentioned, makes a tuft of heavy dark foliage, and 

 sends up graceful sprays of white bells a foot or more in height 

 with tapering buds. It possesses the great advantage, for a 

 Wild Garden plant, of seeding itself freely. 



Campanula latifolia, a wild British plant, mauve, and about 

 four feet high, is useful, especially for damp half shady places, 

 but its variety macrantha is, for the Wild Garden, the best of 

 all. To realise its beauty it must be seen in the north of 

 England or Scotland, where the shoots are five feet high sur- 

 mounted by strong handsome heads of flower the bells a 

 beautiful shape, long and narrow, and either white, mauve, or 

 purple. 



One other perennial variety must be mentioned, C. 

 Burghalti, for its plum coloured tone, is unusual among 

 Campanulas. The bells are large and long like macrantha, 

 but it is only of medium height and rather stiff in growth. 



The two biennial Campanulas, medium and pyramidalis, 

 must of course be grown. Both are best sown in the spring, and 

 if the young plants are pricked out in a nursery bed they make 

 large plants for putting in their permanent places in the autumn, 

 or if necessary they can be left to the spring, but in our dry 

 climate I find this always checks their growth a little. C. 

 medium has been much improved of late years seed of white, 



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