Anchusa it is important therefore to look out for a good strain of seed. 



and Autumn sown plants are always much the strongest. Anchusa 



Campanula f fa ^ ca can be either a rather crude French blue or pure cobalt. 



It is a most valuable plant as it continues flowering most of the 



Summer and looks well anywhere. I like it best of all with 



white, but if a gayer effect is wanted, grow it in the borders 



near posts of Paul's Carmine Pillar Rose. 



Many kinds of Campanulas are in beauty now, and are 

 invaluable in the borders and the wild garden. The biennial 

 Canterbury Bells lend themselves to a great variety of treatment ; 

 the more they are massed the better they look, and they are not 

 particular where they grow. We have a plantation of them 

 in the open, a gay mixture of all the colours, and I have seen 

 them doing equally well on a piece of rough ground under large 

 trees. Seed can be had in separate colours, and single or double, 

 the violet being particularly fine. It should be sown in April, 

 and flowers will then, be produced the following June year. 

 Later on in the month several perennial kinds of Campanula 

 are out which should be in every garden. C. grandis, mauve 

 and white, comes first growing about two feet high, and bearing 

 handsome spikes of flowers. They are strong growers, and 

 increase quickly by division. C. Macrantha, purple, about four 

 or five feet high, and C. Glomerata, either purple or white, 

 with tufts of flowers at the tops of the stems, do well in woody 

 places. Rather later in the month come two of the most 

 useful, C. persicifolia and lactiflora. Persiclfolia is both mauve 

 and white, and in soil it likes increases very fast. To get the 

 best flowers it should be taken up and divided pretty frequently. 

 There was a lovely mass of it at Wisley, looking as if it had 

 seeded itself profusely under a bush of Sfiirtea Reevesi^ the long 



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