Varieties of Among the dwarf varieties, only a few inches in height, 
Campanula c@spitosa—called also pumila and pusilla—is a treasure for rock 
gardens, producing myriads of tiny bells either mauve or white ; 
C. haylodgensis is rather larger, and is probably a cross between 
cespitosa and carpatica; garganica forms a creeping tuft 
smothered with starry open mauve flowers with a white centre, 
and is particularly pretty when it establishes itself in crannies in a 
wall—hirsuta and hirsuta alba are two good varieties of 
garganica. Among those a little taller, rising to eight or twelve 
inches — rotundifolia, our English Harebell, and its larger 
varieties, Host and Hostii a/ba are both particularly pretty and 
useful—the stems are stronger than in the type, and produce 
more flowers; carpatica, with large open bells, white or purple, 
makes effective clumps. 
For grouping in semi-wild spots, or for the borders, the best 
are grandis, persicifolia, latifolia, macrantha, and alliariefolia, 
and the biennials medium and pyramidalis. 
The variety persicifolta grandiflora is very lovely, and is 
perhaps the most perfect in form of any—the bells are large and 
wide, and are well placed for eighteen inches or more down a 
firm stalk three or four feet in height. The plants increase so 
fast that they must be divided every second year to keep them 
in good condition. The double form Moorheimi is effective at 
a distance for borders, making a denser mass of flowers, but all 
the grace of the large open bell has vanished, and to me it 
appears mostly useful as evidence that Campanulas should be 
left undoubled ! 
Campanula grandis (syn., /atiloba) runs the persicifolia 
close for effect, though it is never so graceful. It bears long 
dense spikes of flowers set close to the stem and more starry in 
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