476 CAMPANULA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CAMPANULA. 



blue or purple among them, and worth a 

 place Daisy Hill mcerheimi, Alba gran- 

 di 'flora maxima, Pallida grandiflora. 



C. Portenschlagiana( Wall Hairbell}. 

 A dense tufted-evergreen kind, with small 



Campanula pyramidalis. 



bright-green leaves, so dense as to obscure 

 the foot-stalks, I in. or more in length, by 

 which they are supported. The flowers 

 pale blue in August or September. It 

 spreads slowly by underground stems, 

 and succeeds in crevices of the rock- 

 garden. Dalmatia. 



C. pulla (Austrian Hairbell}. One of 

 the most beautiful of the Alpine Hairbells, 

 a native of the Austrian Alps, on high 

 mountain pastures ; in the rock-garden it 

 should have a shelf of soil in which peat 

 and sand have been mixed. After bloom- 

 ing the foliage disappears and the plant 

 goes to rest. An excellent rock-garden 

 plant. Division. 



C. pusilla. Smaller than C. caspitosa, 

 rarely exceeding 4 in. in height, the shining 

 green leaves heart-shaped and toothed, 

 the flowers pale blue, in racemes, in June 

 and July. Very gritty moist loam in the 

 rock-garden is best for it. Switzerland. 



C. pyramidalis (Steeple Bell flower). 



A vigorous plant, with thick and fleshy 

 flower-stems, rising to a height of 4 to 6 

 ft. ; the flowers, close to the stem, giving 

 the inflorescence a steeple-like form. The 

 flowers are blue or white ; coming in 

 succession, over a considerable time, in 

 July, August, and September. Though 

 not quite a biennial, it is better in general 

 cultivation to treat it as such, as from seed- 

 ling plants, well grown on during the 

 first year, the finest steins arise. A border 

 flower of the highest merit in favourable 

 soils ; occasional batches of seed should 

 be sown to keep up a supply. It is 

 often grown in pots for the house both 

 in England and France. 



C. Baineri (Rainet ''s Bellflower}. A 

 dwarf, sturdy plant, 3 to 6 in. high, each 

 shoot bearing a large dark-blue flower. 

 It thrives best in sunny positions in loam 

 freely intermingled with pieces of stone, 

 and well watered in dry weather, and is 

 a gem for the rock-garden. Alps of N. 

 Italy. 



C. rotundifolia (English Hairbell). 

 In this pretty wild plant we have a true 

 type of the Hairbell. There is a white 

 variety, generally dwarfer, and there are 

 several forms all beautiful, and of easy 

 culture in any soil. These are all ex- 

 cellent border flowers, and also for the 

 rougher parts of the rock-garden, and 



Campanula turbinata var. 



growing wild in Grass on rough slopes or 

 places not mown till autumn. 



C. turbinata (Turban Bell flower] is a 

 dwarf plant with grayish-green leaves, the 

 flowers borne singly on stems about 6 in. 

 long, deep blue, and \\ in. across ; a 



