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should be tried in shady places, where I have often seen it doing well and 

 making a bold show. 



PATULA. — Flowers small, in loose spreading panicles, blue in 

 colour, but not a perennial in the strictest sense, but it comes up abun- 

 dantly round the parent plant from self-sown seed. Height one to 

 two feet. 



NOBILIS. — A Chinese species with creeping roots and large nodding 

 reddish bells, spotted on the inside with white. The white variety I 



Fig. 25.— Campanula Burghalti pallida. (The Garden.) 



cannot distinguish from Mr. William Bull's punctata, which is a 

 notoriously shy bloomer in Hampshire. 



liAPUNCULOIDES. — This is a species which must not be placed 

 in the mixed herbaceous border : it has drooping bells of a good deep 

 blue in long spikes, but the creeping habit of its roots only fits the plant 

 for the shrubbery border or the wild garden. Height two feet or more. 



HIIOMBOIDALIS. — A distinct and lovely Alpine species growing 

 about fifteen inches high ; flowers a good blue, in small loose clusters, 

 half drooping. The foliage is small and slightly hairy. The variety 

 pallida is rare and desirable, but for ten years I have not come across it. 



BCHEUGHZERI. — A variable Alpine species with rich dark blue 



