The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ropical gardening, andthis feature, where may be seen happyMendings of large Palms and various other fine-foliaged plants, as well as gorgeous summer-bed-ding schemes, ie remarkably effective. A. C. B. CAMPANULA ALPINA. Campanula alpina, one of the smallest mem-bers of the genus, is known as the Alpine BellFlower. The species is a biennial, which is adisadvantage for garden purposes; but plantsare easily raised from seed, and succeed sowell in gritty soil that the species is well worth is not by any m
The Gardeners' chronicle : a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects . ropical gardening, andthis feature, where may be seen happyMendings of large Palms and various other fine-foliaged plants, as well as gorgeous summer-bed-ding schemes, ie remarkably effective. A. C. B. CAMPANULA ALPINA. Campanula alpina, one of the smallest mem-bers of the genus, is known as the Alpine BellFlower. The species is a biennial, which is adisadvantage for garden purposes; but plantsare easily raised from seed, and succeed sowell in gritty soil that the species is well worth is not by any means a new plant. There aremany dwarf Campanulas of neat and compacthabit, and one or more of the various species arein flower during a period extending over severalmonths. W. I. EUCALYPTUS. More than two-thirds of Mr. CambagesPresidential Address to the Royal Societyof New South Wales on the occasion ofthe ninety-second anniversary of its foundation,May 7, 1913, is devoted to Eucalyptus, the para-mount genus in Australian vegetation, to its de-velopment and distribution. The author deals. Photograph by W. Irving. FlQ. 56.—CAMPANULA ALPINA : FLOWERS VIOLET. (NATURAL SIZE.) growing among the choicer plants in the rockgarden. Its nearest ally in the genus is the better-known C. barbata, but, unlike that plant, prefers soil of a calcareous nature. TheAlpine Bell Flower possesses ia fleshy rootstockand forms a tuft of narrow leaves, from whichthe siteim, only 3 inches or so in height, is pro-duced. The flowers are produced in May andJune, and vary in colour from pale to deepviolet. C. alpina is found at elevations rangingfrom 6,000 feet to 7,000 feet in the Alps ofAustria, Lombardy and Transylvania, so that itis not so difficult to manage in gardens as manyother members of the genus. It has been incultivation in this country since 1779, so that it with the development and distribution of thespecies in relation to geological changes, climate,and chemical composition of th
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