a light mulching in the winter, and will then go on increasing Campanulas 
from year to year, perhaps overrunning the border and becom- as Wild 
ing rather a nuisance. Garden 
As a race Campanulas may be said to be one of the best pyjants 
of all Wild Garden flowers, looking at home at once. This 
is partly due to the natural grace and beauty of the well-shaped 
flowers, generally hanging modestly down but sometimes open- 
ing wide to the sun, and partly to the number of wild kinds 
which are commonly known—such as our own Harebells, the 
pale mauve éarbata of Alpine pastures, and C. medium our so- 
called Canterbury Bell, growing on sunny Italian slopes, and 
handsome even before gardeners took it in hand and increased 
its size and scope of colour. The white, mauve, and purple 
tones of Campanulas blend with the green of woodside or field 
and never look spotty, and the diversity in their heights, rang- 
ing from an inch or two up to seven feet, enables one to use 
them in a variety of positions. The majority of them enjoy 
shade, and repay the gift of it by growing taller and lasting for 
an increased period in bloom; others, particularly some of the 
dwarf varieties, may be grown in the sunniest of spots in the 
rock garden, or along the edges of stone paths, where they fit 
themselves into chinks in a delightful way. The genus is a 
very large one, and nearly all the species are worth growing— 
my ambition is to have a collection of them, devoting one bit 
of the wild garden entirely to their growth, and there is no 
‘doubt that such a plan would be well worth carrying out. 
There are dozens of fascinating kinds very little known, which 
it would be most interesting to try, and most of them are hardy. 
In these notes I can only attempt to mention a few of those 
more commonly grown and the most effective. 
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