ANEMONE. 
as sixty great pearly radiant moons simultaneously at their full 
in June. 
A. altaica is a beautiful thing, almost unknown in cultivation 
hitherto. Itis like a glorified wood Anemone, with leaves suggesting a 
small Anemonopsis. Its large flowers are many-rayed, most like a big 
Celandine, white and delicately veined with soft blue. Its cultural 
needs will be those of A. nemorosa, and its constitution is undoubted, 
as it comes from the far mountain-woods of Northern Asia. 
A. amoena is a synonym of A. pulsatilla. 
A. angulosa. See under A. Hepatica. 
A. antucensis comes from Chile, and should be an interesting little 
Anemone, akin to A. nemorosa and requiring similar treatment. 
A. apennina needs neither praise nor description. Its exquisite 
ragged many-rayed stars of clear blue are among the first joys of 
spring, twinkling among grass or in forgotten corners of the garden. 
For no matter into what odd corners you may cast out your superfluous 
tuber-mats of A. apennina, they will promptly root and establish 
themselves, and reward you one day with an unexpected flash of 
heaven as you go round the garden. There are white and pink and 
dark-blue forms, but nothing can surpass the loveliness of the 
common Apennina, which is such a lover of our country and climate 
that it has tried hard to take out naturalisation-papers, establishing 
itself here and there in English woods till botanists were once inclined 
to recognise it as a native. But, if you want to establish the plant 
quickly, it is best, if possible, to buy your clumps in full activity, 
when the leaves are just dying down; for, if you wait till autumn, as 
catalogues prescribe, you receive the dried tubers only, which are 
sometimes apt to be chary about sending up life again above ground 
next year. 
A. baikalensis of our nurserymen and gardens is wholly a fraud, 
being nothing more than a variety or synonym of A. silvestris. The 
true A. baikalensis is hairy, with only one root-leaf, which has a long 
stalk and is more or less rounded in outline and cut into three 
divisions. The white blossoms are about an inch and a half across, 
one or two, carried each on its stem, larger than those of A. nemorosa, 
and very like those of A. blanda. A. baikalensis, in similar treatment, 
throws out white runners, and soon forms a neat and thick but not 
invasive clump. 
A. baldensis is, with A. vernalis, the one really alpine Anemone of 
the European ranges. It is essentially a Southern species and avoids 
the central chains, being found always in austere stony places, screes, 
and higher earth-pans: usually abundant where it occurs: in Spain, 
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