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the rockery. I would particularly commend the variety 

 of pulla (or, as some authorities describe it, hybrid 

 between pulla and carpathica) called G. F. Wilson, for 

 it is a most beautiful plant, growing about nine inches 

 high, and bearing large deep blue flowers in great pro- 

 fusion. An equally attractive plant is Isabel, which I 

 am told is a seedling form of the old turbinata ; be that 

 as it may, it is a splendid form, a little taller than G. F. 

 Wilson, and with more expanded flowers, but with an 

 equally fine colour. Both these Bellflowers are grand 

 plants, owing to their close growth, large flowers, rich 

 colour and profusion of bloom. They do me yeoman's 

 service on a rock bank the body of which is mere chalk, 

 surfaced with a thin layer of moderate soil ; the plants 

 make the best of poor conditions and bloom heroically, 

 displaying a depth of tint for which the limestone may 

 partly account. Profusion is a beautiful mauve hybrid, six 

 inches high. Kewensis, a hybrid between pulla and G. F. 

 Wilson, is good. Venusta, which is a variety of carpathica 

 with pretty lavender flowers, is another desirable form. 

 Of the Peach-leaved (persicaefolia) group, while the best 

 member is probably the double white, alba plena, I 

 should like to commend the variety Moerheimii, which 

 bears an 1 8-inch spike of pure white single flowers. 

 Some of the seedsmen offer good blue and white forms of 

 the Peach-leaved Bellflower under the name of grandi- 

 flora. Easily propagated by division or seed in a frame 

 in spring, the Campanulas are among the kindliest of 

 blue-flowered perennials. 



CANDYTUFT. Although perennial plants form the 

 principal feature of borders, the flower-lover should not 

 allow himself to become enslaved by any class. There 

 are few borders or large beds in which a space does not 



