ANEMONE. 
A. fulgens we shall never see in its real fulness. For this is the 
Red of all red Anemones from the Levant, which ousts even Coronaria 
from the throne of King of the Scarlets. The species is most variable : 
we grow its pretty dwarf lilac-starred variety called A. fulgens stellata 
(often simply A. stellata in catalogues) with ease and success in warm 
dry borders and rock-gardens; we cope successfully with the other 
varieties, A. hortensis and A. pavonina; but A. fulgens-type, as its 
ardent many-rayed suns of scarlet dazzle the wide fields of Greece and 
Asia Minor, is too hot and blazing and intemperate a glory for climates 
so mild and respectable as ours. But when we see the many-rayed 
tuber-rooted red or pink Anemones of the South offered for sale cr 
in our gardens, we may remember to what species it is they belong, 
and of what resplendence they are the comparatively feeble repre- 
sentatives. 
A. globosa, from North America, frequently advertised, has quite 
small miserable-looking blooms of a dull and dirty red, carried at the 
end of tall, stiff, erect stalks. It is really A. multifida, q.v. ; should 
be thrown to the dust-bin. 
A. Griffithit is a little Himalayan Wood-anemone very closely akin 
to A. nemorosa. 
A. Hailleri need never be mistaken for any other of the Pulsatilla 
group to which it belongs. It isan outstanding species, all shaggy-silky 
grey with long fine hairs, and the divisions of the leaves, so far from 
being fine and ferny as in the Pulsatillas, are thick, few, broad, flat, 
and sharp. The flowers stand nearly erect, on stems of 5 or 6 inches 
(or more at last), and are large and ample, of a goodly rich violet, 
sheeny outside with silk (very rarely varying to white or pink). A. 
Halleri is not a common find, occurring on rough grassy hills of the 
mountains at alpine elevations, but sporadic and “oddly local. In 
Switzerland it is only found above Zermatt, in Savoy only in one 
strictly limited station on the Mont Cenis, in rough turf, with Dianthus 
neglectus, Aster alpinus, and Orchis sambucina, among stunted bushes 
of Rosa alpina and R. pimpinellifolia, and so on, here and there 
through the eastern and western ranges, occupying a quite narrow 
strip, from the Maritimes, through the Cottians to the Southern edge 
of the Pennines, always abhorring the limestone. After flowering, 
the splendid leaves develop and stand up, forming a tuft, 5 inches 
high or so, round the yet further elongated fruiting-stem. The root 
is deep and tough; the plant is best raised from seed, and grown in 
deep and perhaps non-calcareous loam with perfect drainage and 
full sun. It comes a good second to A. sinensis in its group. 
A. helleborifolia, from Chile, has been confused with A. decapetala, 
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