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JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
are of ivory whiteness and stout substance, quite 2 inches 
across, and looking skywards. Cenisia and excisa are rare 
gems, flourishing only where the rooting medium and the con- 
ditions of moisture exactly suit them. Zoysii has a place in 
this open, sunny, and withal moist position, and suggests an 
inquiry whether it has not really got into wrong company in 
the Campanula garden, so unlike the Bellflowers are its con- 
tracted tubes with mitre-shaped limb — but, oh ! how exquisite. 
Only 2 or 3 inches high at most, the flowers are in abundance, 
surmounting delicate tufts of spoon-shaped tiny leaves, com- 
pared with which the flowers of | inch long are large. The 
seeming white lines which really form the edges of the corolla, 
and which appear to cross symmetrically over the mouth of the 
tube, constitute the feature to most excite our curiosity in con- 
nection with this gem. 
We linger among the Alpine species, and directly we find 
valdensis. This seems to come somewhat near to intsilla, but 
it is more refined. Its flowers are so shell-like that they rattle 
in your hand, or when you draw your hand over them. Fragilis 
is a delicate beauty, as implied by its name, and abietina, with 
a dense-growing matted habit, has three rather distinct features 
— pale green herbage, glistening sky-blue flowers, and an abrupt 
ascending flower-spike. 
A little further back from the edge of the walk are species 
and varieties of somewhat stronger growth and higher stature. 
The lovely group of carpatica first attracts our notice. This 
comprises the three or four shades of turhinata, two or more 
shades of the distinct 2:)elviformis, the two (reputed) varieties of 
" C. F. Wilson," and the, so to speak, " false " Baincri — not 
Baineri vera. More or less near to turhinata are various other 
forms of carpatica, as alha and pallida, and where these 
plants have been allowed to seed themselves the natural hybrids 
of this type are delighifiilly confusing. There is also the 
afjrjntrjata group, 1 to 2 feet or more high, (/lovicrata and 
daJiurica being conspicuous. 
There have been planted here also, according to the more 
ancient nomenclature, Camvanula grandi/lora and its varieties 
(known nowadays as Tlatycodons). Those arc distinct to a 
degree, as the change of name made by botanists would seem 
to imply ; but so lovely is tin's group of some four forms, in- 
