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CAMPANULA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



CAMPANULA. 



September, when they should be trans- 

 planted into their permanent places in 

 the flower borders, where they will get 

 well established before the winter and 

 develop blooming crowns for the next year. 



Campanula pyramidalis. 



C. persicifolia (Peach - leaved Bell- 

 flower}. A beautiful species, the cup- 

 shaped flowers of which are fully 2 in. 

 across. The plant is \\ to 3 ft. high, 

 flowering in July and August. 



Besides the double blue and white 

 forms there is an interesting variety 

 named coronata, in which the corolla is 

 doubled. All the varieties well repay 

 good culture, and there is a new and very 

 large form, maxime. Plants occasionally 

 divided and grown in rich beds give very 

 fine crops of flowers. 



C. Portenschlagiana( WallHairbell\ 

 A dense tufted-evergreen species, with small 

 bright-green leaves, irregularly notched, so 

 dense as to obscure the foot-stalks, I in. or 

 more in length, by which they are sup- 

 ported. 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\ This, 



when well grown, is one of the most charm- 

 ing of Hairbells. It is a native of the 

 Austrian Alps, on high mountain pastures ; 

 if planted in the rock-garden, therefore, it 

 should have to itself a shelf of soil in 

 which a little peat and sand have been 

 mixed. After blooming the foliage dis- 

 appears 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. Switzerland. Very gritty moist 

 loam in the rock-garden is best for it. 

 Syn. C. modesta. 



'C. pyramidalis (Steeple Bell/lower). 

 A vigorous plant, with thick and fleshy 

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

 ft., with numerous broad ovate leaves ; the 

 flowers, close to the stem, giving the in- 

 florescence 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 seedling plants, 

 well grown on during the first year, the 

 finest stems arise. A border flower of 

 the highest merit in favourable soils ; so 

 important, indeed, that occasional batches 

 of seed should be sown to keep up a 



Campanula turbinata var. 



vigorous supply. It is often grown in 

 pots for the house both in England and 

 France. 



C. Raineri (Rainess Bell flower). A 

 dwarf, compact, sturdy plant, varying in 

 height from 3 to 6 in., each branch bearing 

 a large dark-blue flower. It thrives best 



