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good deal of the pumila blood in its veins. Foliage pale green ; flowers 

 delicate pale blue. 



ISOPHYLLA. — A highly decorative but tender prostrate species, 

 said to be found on one rock only on a promontory ou the west coast 

 of Italy. I And it hardy only in vertical crevices in a limestone wall- 

 like rockery ; autumn rains seem to destroy all its vigour. The late 

 Mr. Atkins used to grow it well on the open rockery in limestone soil at 

 his elevated garden in the Cotswold Hills twenty years ago. The white 

 form has now got extensively into cultivation as a hanging or basket 

 plant, and is absolutely the best plant ever used for this purpose. 



Amongst isophylla hybrids is Mayi, a very beautiful one brought to 

 our notice two years ago : it appears to be quite hardy. Balchiniana is 

 like the type, but with silver variegated leaves. It is, I believe, the only 



Fig. 35.— Campanula Morettiana. (The Garden.) 



variegated-leafed Campanula. It was raised from seed by Mr. Mitten, of 

 Hurstpierpoint, from a cross made between the type and its white-flowered 

 form, and this was the only plant that appeared. The stock passed into 

 Messrs. Balchin's hands for distribution. The whole of the isophylla 

 group are easily struck from the young growing tops. Any light soil 

 seems to suit these isophylla hybrids, but they must not be considered 

 any hardier than the type. 



LAN ATA. — An exceedingly rare species with sulphur-yellow flowers, 

 which, (hough first described in the Acta of the Hungarian Academy in 

 1HIJ7, seems never to have come into at all general cultivation. It grows 

 to as much as 18 inches in height, and forms a pyramid of slender 

 branches terminating in large bell-shaped blossoms filled more or less 

 like harbata witli long hairs. It is a true rock plant, and likes a full 

 exposure to the sun. (Fig. 34.) 



