THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



June plant on strong, moist, clay soil, where it assumed stately 

 I~I5 proportions and stood out as one of the noblest plants 

 in the garden. 



Calandrinia Umbellaia, the Rock Purslane, is an ex- 

 tremely pretty plant, with magenta flowers, and thrives 

 in hot positions on the rockery. A variety with rosy 

 carmine flowers is procurable, and many will prefer the 

 colour to that of the older plant. 



The Cainpamdas (Harebells, Canterbury Bells, &c.) 

 are one of the most important of border genera, and one 

 or other of them will be included in every order for 

 seeds of hardy flowers for summer sowing. C. Allioni 

 is a dainty little Alpine species with violet flowers, suit- 

 able for the rockery. Carpathica, blue, and its white 

 variety. Alba, are old favourites, used both on the rockery 

 and in the border. They grow about a foot high. Fra- 

 gilis and Garganica are blue trailers. Glomerata Dahu- 

 rica is a fine Bellflower, rich indigo blue in colour, and 

 growing about a foot high. Grandiflora (Platycodon 

 Grandiflorum), the Chinese Bellflower, has large blue, 

 cup-shaped blooms, borne in bunches on erect stems 

 about eighteen inches high. White and double varieties 

 are procurable. Latifolia Alba is one of the tallest of the 

 border Campanulas, growing to three feet high. Cam- 

 panula Medium is our old favourite the Canterbury Bell, 

 which we can get in blue, lilac, white, rose, and striped ; 

 and Campanula Medium Calycanthema is the cup-and- 

 saucer Canterbury Bell, which we can get in the same 

 colours, but with much larger flowers. Double Canter- 

 bury Bells are also procurable. Persicifolia (the Peach- 

 leaved Bellflower) and its varieties form an extremely 

 valuable set. The type is blue, and there is a single 

 white variety of it, also a semi-double white (Moerheimii) 

 and full double blue and white forms, the last one of our 

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