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C. p. alba is a white flowering variety of the above species ; 

 its other points of distinction are its smaller-sized leaves and 

 much paler green colour, by which alone the plants may be 

 easily recognised from the type. This variety may be grown 

 with good effect in pots or the border; it scarcely gets so tall as 

 the blue form, but looks well by the side of it. 



The readiest way to increase these plants is to take the .young 

 and dwarf growths from the woody crown of the roots, paring off 

 a little of the bark with each. If these are put in sandy loam 

 during the warm growing season and kept shaded for a few days, 

 they will very soon make plenty of roots ; this method in no way 

 damages the flowers. Another way is by seed, but seedlings are 

 two years before they bloom. 



Campanula Speciosa. 



SHOWY HAREBELL; Nat. Ord. CAMPANTJLACE^. 

 A COMPARATIVELY new species, brought from Siberia in 1825, 

 and sometimes called C. glomerata dahurica. It is a good hardy 

 plant, perennial and herbaceous, and one of the earliest to flower. 

 It has a distinct appearance ; it nearly resembles C. aggregata, 

 but the latter does not flower until several weeks later. Apart 

 from its likeness to other species of the genus, it is a first-class 

 border flower, having large bells of a fine deep purple colour, and, 

 unlike many of the Harebells, is not over tall, but usually about 

 a foot high, having a neat habit. The flowers are arranged in 

 dense heads, whorl fashion, having very short stalks ; they are 

 nearly 2in. long and bell shaped. The leaves (radical) are oval 

 heart-shaped and stalked ; those of the stems are sessile ; the 

 whole plant is hairy and robust. This is one of the flowers 

 which can hardly be planted out of place in any garden, except- 

 ing amongst the rare and very dwarf alpines ; it is not only 

 true to its name, " showy," but handsome. It will grow and 

 flower well in the worst soil and needs no sort of care ; it would 

 be fine in lines by a shrubbery, and is effective in bold clumps ; 

 and though a new kind, it belongs to a race of " old-fashioned " 

 flowers, amongst which it would mix appropriately. Increased 

 by division in autumn. 



Flowering period, June and July. 



Campanula Waldsteiniana. 



Nat. Ord. CAMPANTJLACE^E. 



A RARE and distinct alpine species from Carinthia. It proves 

 perfectly hardy in this climate. For the rock garden it is a gem 

 of the first water, its habit being dwarf, dense, and rigid; flori- 

 ferous as many of the Bellflowers are, I know none to excel this 

 one. As may be observed in the following description, there are 



