50 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
blue or lilac flowers, large, cross-shaped, but very like a 
Clematis, ‘This dear little creeper has a splendid Albino 
form; and both thrive easily on any sunny rockery (1 
daresay they would thrive in shade quite as well) in any 
cool, sound loam. 
On the heels of Clematis must come Anemonopsis—in 
flower so like Atragene, yet so different in every other 
way. Anemonopsis macrophylla is a singularly beautiful 
Japanese herbaceous perennial, throwing up great, hand- 
some leaves, recalling those of a Cimicifuga, though the 
whole plant is juicier and less tough. The flowers are 
carried on tall, graceful stems, and are vaguely reminiscent 
at once of Anemone and of Clematis—large, pale-purple 
and white. Anemonopsis has a bad reputation, I gather, 
in gardens, and I have suffered many things at his hands 
ever since I saw him years ago, blooming gloriously at 
Edge, and resolved that happen what might, I must and 
would possess him in health. Many failures, however, 
at last disgusted me, and when a final stock came to 
hand I said I couldn’t be bothered to make any more 
beds or fussments for such an ungrateful creature. He 
must go out with other herbaceous stuff, to shift for himself 
in a rich border of peaty loam fattened with manure. I 
confess I thought that Anemonopsis would be much 
annoyed, and sulk even worse than he had been in the 
habit of sulking when care had been bestowed on him. 
With the amazing contradictiousness of plants, however, 
that Anemonopsis has simply taken possession of his 
strip, and throws up tall sturdy shoots after the wildest 
winters. He is a deep-rooter, and evidently will take 
kindly to deep, nourishing soil. And, this granted, he 
seems to ask for neither protection nor care of any kind. 
(Latest news: this tale is much too rosy.) 
As for the Christmas Roses, I don’t think I need tell 
my experience of them. ‘They are splendid people— 
