THE GENUS CAMPANULA. 



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botanist — but the plant is of no real beauty for garden-propagated seed. 

 (Fig. 24.) 



VAN HOUTTEI has very large rich blue pendent bells on spikes of 

 about a foot to 18 inches high, and must be considered one of the best 



border perennials in existence, moderate in growth and extremely 

 floriferous. It is without doubt a hybrid, but I do not know the parentage. 



PALLIDA (syn. Burghalti) is another hybrid with very long grey 

 bells with chocolate-coloured buds. (Fig. 25.) 



3IIBABILIS. — A new species of great beauty, but not a perennial, 

 dying after flowering. Report says that the collector Alboff believed the 



