54 ALPINES AND BOG-PLANTS 
Close cousins to Anemone are the Thalictrums, of 
which our limestone fells abound with one, mins, in 
foliage hardly less graceful than the better-known 
adiantifolium, and gracious, in June, with tall, airy 
showers of yellowish tiny tassels. You will see it waving 
from the inaccessible cliffs of Sulber and Gordale; nor 
does it offer any sort of difficulty to the gardener. Our 
other interesting native (/lavwm is rather a coarse, gawky 
thing) is microscopic Thalictrum alpinum from Upper 
Teesdale, a wee, delicate, inconspicuous high-alpine which 
you may cultivate carefully in a select peaty corner. 
Anemonoeides is a real beauty, with big Anemone-like 
white flowers, which, I don’t know why, has never yet 
done much with me. It has a good reputation, too; 
perhaps the fault is mine for having only tried it in the 
Old Garden. Some day I will attempt it again in the 
new one. Light soil, well drained, in a sheltered choice 
corner, is recommended for this. Of the larger sorts I 
have a great love for petaloidewm (and hope great things 
of polygamum and foliolosum and chelidoniifolium, re- 
ported splendid). Petaloidewm has beautiful glaucous 
grey leaves, which unfold at first rather like those of 
Ranunculus rutaefolius, and then, on stems about a foot 
high or more, heads of large cream-white flowers, rather 
like those of the Traveller's Joy on a lessened scale. 
This plant likes any border soil. But the most gener- 
ally valuable for large-scale gardening is unquestionably 
Thalictrum aquilegifolium. So splendid is this, and alto- 
gether admirable, that I cannot restrain my enthusiasm 
for it until I come to the greater bog-plants. One finds 
T'. aquilegifolium in damp alpine meadows all Switzerland 
over, and in cultivation it takes very kindly indeed to any 
cool deep loam, forming, in time,enormous clumps that need 
no care. ‘The leaves are very large, pale green, magnifi- 
cent as so many broad spreading plumes of a magnified 
