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earth. Though they have been out of flower 

 for a month, their noble foliage is a delight 

 all through the Summer and Autumn. The 

 various Campanulas also want watching, for 

 half their effect is lost if they are staked after 

 their flower shoots have begun to sprawl and 

 ramble over the border. Speaking of Campa- 

 nulas reminds me of that excellent biennial, 

 C. medium^ the once familiar Canterbury Bell, 

 now so strangely neglected in many gardens. 

 A quantity of these flowers raised one year 

 from a small packet of Sutton's seed, and 

 planted alternately with some particularly fine 

 Sweet Williams, went far to reconcile me to a 

 narrow and usually rather dull border under a 

 Rose hedge ; for they made it gay with colour 

 for weeks pure white, pale pink, mauve, and 

 blue, both double and single. The modern 

 forms of this flower are so handsome, so easy 

 to grow, and seed themselves so freely, that I 

 wonder they are not more generally cultivated ; 

 and, as with C. Persicifolia, if one has patience 

 to pull off the faded flowers others come out 

 in their place and prolong the flowering season 



