This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...are the needs of this plant, which hates lime. Long, narrow, hairy leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers on slender stems about 6 inches high. Blooms in July. One of the loveliest and most difficult Campanulas. Requires abundant moisture during growing season. C. alpina.--Rather long leaves covered with a ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...are the needs of this plant, which hates lime. Long, narrow, hairy leaves and blue, bell-shaped flowers on slender stems about 6 inches high. Blooms in July. One of the loveliest and most difficult Campanulas. Requires abundant moisture during growing season. C. alpina.--Rather long leaves covered with a greyish down. Of erect habit, growing from 6 to 10 inches high. Spikes of fine dark blue flowers, pendulous, tubular-shaped, about 1 inch long. Blooms in July. Division or seeds. C. barbata.--Compact tufts of shaggy leaves. Lovely pendulous, pale blue, bell-shaped flowers nearly 1 inch long, all fringed at the mouth. These are borne four or five on a spike, in May. Unfortunately not always perennial. Dislikes excessive damp in winter, so should be planted in a dryish spot. C. b. alba is a lovely form; requiring same treatment. C. caespitosa.--A dwarf, spreading little plant. Tufted habit, 4 to 6 inches high. Round glossy leaves and a cloud of pale blue flowers in summer. Too strong a grower for association with choice plants; but for planting between steps and clothing odd comers there is no better or more lovely little flower. Readily increased by division. There is a white form, which is difficult to distinguish from pusilla alba. C. carnica.--Rather of the type of the native Harebell. Flowers long, narrow, and tubular, and lilac-purple in colour. Quite hardy and a good grower. C. carpatica.--Erect, deep blue flowers, funnel-shaped, growing in loose panicles about 9 to 18 inches high, according to the richness of the soil, and very freely produced during the summer. Stems leafy and branched. This is the type, but there are an endless number of hybrids and varieties; of the latter the best and most distinct are--C. car. alba.--A pure white form, ..
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