Campanula pale pink, mauve, or purple can all be bought separately, 
medium and which is a great aid to successful grouping. At Godington, 
Pyramidalis near Ashford, they are grown in an unusual and picturesque way, 
quantities being planted in long grass under trees, and though 
it is some labour to prepare the holes for them every year, it is 
labour well spent. In sunny places they seed themselves and 
come up year after year, taking, for instance, possession of some of 
our railway cuttings, and making them gay with colour, though 
the individual flowers are not big. 
C. pyramidalis is even more useful for pot culture than in 
the border, as it can be grown in that way to much greater 
beauty. The young plants should be potted up in the autumn 
and kept in a cold frame through the winter. In the spring a 
few doses of liquid manure should be given, and when they 
have thrown up their flower spikes it is a great advantage to 
put them for a time ina cool house. This elongates the stems 
wonderfully so that long graceful sprays of bloom 6 feet or more 
in height are produced, and if the dead flowers are removed 
these will last in the house for two or three months, For out- 
door use they should be put in their permanent places in the 
autumn, and will grow in either shade or sun, flowering in August 
a month after most of the Campanulas. They often sow them- 
selves delightfully on walls, or at the edges of gravel paths; 
these vagrants are sometimes the finest plants of all, producing 
eight or ten spikes of bloom and proving apparently that they 
do better when not transplanted. 
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