. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. C CARPATICA ALBA. Harebell gracing and hedgerow with its slender stems ol soli blue Mowers. C. earpatica is a beautiful kind which may be raised from seed sown as soon as ripe in a cold frame, but il is nei essary to propagate the named varieties from cuttings at the same time, or by pulling the lulls apart, to increase their number. This Campanula should be in every garden, and il will succeed in any light soil. It may be also grown in baskets. Alba is a variety with pure white Mowers, and p
. The century book of gardening; a comprehensive work for every lover of the garden. Gardening. C CARPATICA ALBA. Harebell gracing and hedgerow with its slender stems ol soli blue Mowers. C. earpatica is a beautiful kind which may be raised from seed sown as soon as ripe in a cold frame, but il is nei essary to propagate the named varieties from cuttings at the same time, or by pulling the lulls apart, to increase their number. This Campanula should be in every garden, and il will succeed in any light soil. It may be also grown in baskets. Alba is a variety with pure white Mowers, and pallida, as ils n one suggests, is delicate blue. C. fragilis is a pretty little species with drooping downy shoots, smothered in summer with pale blue Mowers. When planted in the rock garden it should have a warm sunny spot and fairly deep loamy soil. This is, perhaps, ol all Bellflowers the most useful for hanging baskets in the w indow or greenhouse. Il may be often seen in full beauty in stuffy cottage windows, where one would think few things could exist. Il is easily increased by cuttings taken in spring, choosing the little shouts and dibbling them into pots, which should be placed in a cold frame. C. glomerata is a native kind, with blue Mowers. There is a w hile variety, and one named dahurica, w hich should be in all gardens, tow n or country, large or small. Its clusters of deep purple Mowers are very handsome, as they are produced with wonderful freedom. No Bell- Mower is richer in colour or freer than this, anil il will succeed in almost any soil. C. grandis, as its name suggests, is a noble plant, bearing upon its tall stems pale blue Mowers. It grows rapidly, and soon forms an imposing group, but is scarcely so fine as C. persicifolia. Increased by division in spring. There is a white variety called alba. C. isophylla is as popular as almost any Bellflower. This is the kind seen so frequently in the greenhouse and in baskets in the window, its slender drooping sho
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