Campanula pale pink, mauve, or purple can all be bought separately, 

 medium and which is a great aid to successful grouping. At Godington, 

 Pyramidalis near Ashford, they are grown in an unusual and picturesque way, 

 quantities being planted in long grass under trees, and though 

 it is some labour to prepare the holes for them every year, it is 

 labour well spent. In sunny places they seed themselves and 

 come up year after year, taking, for instance, possession of some of 

 our railway cuttings, and making them gay with colour, though 

 the individual flowers are not big. 



C. pyramidalis is even more useful for pot culture than in 

 the border, as it can be grown in that way to much greater 

 beauty. The young plants should be potted up in the autumn 

 and kept in a cold frame through the winter. In the spring a 

 few doses of liquid manure should be given, and when they 

 have thrown up their flower spikes it is a great advantage to 

 put them for a time in a cool house. This elongates the stems 

 wonderfully so that long graceful sprays of bloom 6 feet or more 

 in height are produced, and if the dead flowers are removed 

 these will last in the house for two or three months. For out- 

 door use they should be put in their permanent places in the 

 autumn, and will grow in either shade or sun, flowering in August 

 a month after most of the Campanulas. They often sow them- 

 selves delightfully on walls, or at the edges of gravel paths ; 

 these vagrants are sometimes the finest plants of all, producing 

 eight or ten spikes of bloom and proving apparently that they 

 do better when not transplanted. 



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