kinds, but the doubling, though in some cases it makes a good enough 

 flower, changes the true character so much that it is a Bell-flower no 

 longer ; and we think that a Bell-flower should be a bell, and should hang 

 and swing, and not be made into a flattened flower set rather tightly on 

 an ungraceful, thickened stem. 



Another beautiful Campanula is C. /atifo/ia, especially the white- 

 flowered form. It is not only a first-rate flower, but it gives that 

 pleasant impression of wholesome prosperity that is so good to see. The 

 tall, pointed spike of large milk-white bells is of fine form, and the 

 distinctly-toothed leaves are in themselves handsome. Like all the Bell- 

 flowers, the bloom is cut into six divisions — " lobes of the corolla," 

 botanists call them. Each division is sharply pointed and recurved or 

 rolled back after the manner of many of the Lilies. This fine Cam- 

 panula is not only a good plant for the flower-border, but also for half- 

 shady places in quiet nooks where the garden joins woodland, in the 

 case of those fortunate gardens that have such a desirable frontier-land ; 

 the sort of place where the instinct of the best kind of gardener will 

 prompt him to plant, or rather to sow, the white Foxglove, and to 

 plant the white French Willow [Epilobium). 



Nothing is more commonly seen in gardens than wide-spread 

 neglected patches of Campanula gramiis. The picture shows it better 

 grown. It spreads quickly and in many gardens flowers only sparingly, 

 because the tufts should have been oftener divided. It is perhaps the 

 most commonly grown of all, and though, as the picture shows, it can 

 be more worthily used than is ordinarily done, it is by no means so pretty 

 a plant as others of its family. 



In good soils in our southern counties the tall and beautiful Chimney 

 Campanula (C. pyramidalis)^ commonly grown in pots for the con- 

 servatory, should be largely used in the borders ; it also loves a place in 

 a wall joint. It is a plant that we are so used to see in a pot that we are 

 apt to forget its great merit in the open ground. 



Of the smaller Bell-flowers, C. carpatica, both blue and white, is one 

 of the very best of garden plants ; delightful from the moment when 

 the first tuft of leaves comes out of the ground in spring till its full 

 blooming time in middle summer. No plant is better for the front edge 



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