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THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



amongst the hardiest of the section. 

 Then there are the single white ; single 

 red ; double blue, rich in colour ; Baj-loivi, 

 a rich-coloured sport from the single 

 blue ; sple/idetis, a single red ; Hlacifia, 

 a pretty mauve kind ; and some others — 

 every variety being worthy of culture. 



Anemone japonica alba. 



A. japonica {Japan A7iemone). — A tall 

 autumn-blooming kind, 2 ft. to 4 ft. high, 

 with fine foliage and large rose-coloured 

 flowers. The variety named Honorine 

 Jobert, with pure white flowers, is a 

 beautiful plant ; and all good forms of 

 the plant should be cultivated where cut 

 flowers are required in autumn. By 

 having some on a north border, and some 

 on a warm one, the bloom may be pro- 

 longed. The secret of success seems to 

 be to prepare at first a deep bed of rich 

 soil and to leave the plants alone. 



The various forms of the Japan Ane- 

 mone are useful for borders, groups, 

 fringes of shrubbery in rich soil, and here 

 and there in half-shady places by wood 

 walks. 



A. nemorosa i^Wood Anemone). — In 

 spring this native plant adorns our woods, 

 and also those of nearly all Europe and 

 N. Asia, but so abundant in the liritish 

 Isles that there is no need to plead for 

 its culture. There are double varieties, 



and the colour of the flower is occasionally 

 lilac, or reddish, or purplish. 



A sky-blue variety, A. Rodinsoftiana, is 

 of easy culture and much beauty, espe- 

 cially if seen when the noon-day sun is 

 on the flowers. It is useful for the rock- 

 garden in wide-spreading tufts ; or for the 

 margins of borders, or as a ground plant 

 beneath shrubs, or for the wild garden or 

 for dotting through the Grass in the 

 pleasure-ground in spots not mown early. 

 Other forms worth growing are Connu- 

 bicnsis., the blue wild Welsh form, and a 

 large white form. 



A. palmata {Cyclamen-leaved Ane- 

 mone). — A distinct kind, with leathery 

 leaves and large handsome flowers in 

 May and June, glossy yellow, only open- 

 ing to the sun. A native of N. Africa 

 and other places on the shores of the 

 Mediterranean. This charming flower 

 should be planted in deep turfy peat, or 

 light fibrous loam with leaf-mould, but 

 not placed on the face of rocks, but 

 rather on level spots, where it can root 

 deeply and grow into strong tufts. There 

 is a double variety. This Anemone may 

 be increased by either division or seeds. 



A. Pulsatilla {Pasque-flower).— Thtrt 

 are few sights more pleasant to the lover 

 of spring flowers than the Pasque-flower 

 just showing through the dry Grass of a 

 bleak down on an early spring day. It is 

 smaller in a wild than in a cultivated 

 state, forming in the garden strong healthy 

 tufts, but it is one of the plants more 

 beautiful in a wild state than in a garden. 

 In Normandy with Mr. Burbidge I came 

 upon many plants of it on the grassy 



Pasque-flower (Anemone Pulsatilla). 



hill about Chateau Gaillard and also 

 in the woods and by the roads near, and 

 we thought we had never seen so fair a 



