form; it also needs frequent division, and any little bit makes a Varieties of 
flowering tuft very quickly. For the wood or wild garden it Campanula 
is invaluable; clumps of the purple look magnificent with 
white Foxgloves, and the white can hardly be out of place 
anywhere in the borders, and is just the right height for 
grouping with De/phinium belladonna. 
C. alhariafolia, flowering in July with all the other 
kinds just mentioned, makes a tuft of heavy dark foliage, and 
sends up graceful sprays of white bells a foot or more in height 
with tapering buds. It possesses the great advantage, for a 
Wild Garden plant, of seeding itself freely. 
Campanula /atifolia,—a wild British plant, mauve, and about 
four feet high,—is useful, especially for damp half shady places, 
but its variety macrantha is, for the Wild Garden, the best of 
all. To realise its beauty it must be seen in the north of 
England or Scotland, where the shoots are five feet high sur- 
mounted by strong handsome heads of flower—the bells a 
beautiful shape, long and narrow, and either white, mauve, or 
purple. 
One other perennial variety must be mentioned, C. 
Burghalti, for its plum coloured tone, is unusual among 
Campanulas. The bells are large and long like macrantha, 
but it is only of medium height and rather stiff in growth. 
The two biennial Campanulas, medium and pyramidalis, 
must of course be grown. Both are best sown in the spring, and 
if the young plants are pricked out in a nursery bed they make 
large plants for putting in their permanent places in the autumn, 
or if necessary they can be left to the spring, but in our dry 
climate I find this always checks their growth a little C. 
medium has been much improved of late years—seed of white, 
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