THE GENUS CAMPANULA. 



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crown. It is beautifully grown by many cottagers as a hanging or basket 

 plant, or may be planted out on the rockery in the summer and lifted 

 again in autumn. It would probably make a splendid wall-crevice plant 

 planted vertically. Autumn rains seem to seriously injure it. I believe 

 there is no white form of this lovely plant. Propagated from cuttings. 

 GABGANICA. — Another Italian dwarf-habited bell-flower having 



Fig. 34 Campanula laxata. (The Garden.) 



tufted growth and trailing flower stems of a deep blue colour with white 

 centre : it is quite hardy in Hampshire. Minor is also one of the best 

 crevice plants I know. Hirsuta (syn. mollis) has grey foliage, with 

 masses of pale-blue flowers resting on the ground. Its white variety is 

 rare and handsome. 



HAYLODGENSIS is a charming hybrid from Hay Lodge, with a 



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