ANEMONE. 
late-flowering and very large indeed, of the most exquisitely clear and 
subtle tone of lavender-blue. Blue Bonnet, however, is the biggest and 
latest of all, a plant not so tall, but strangely fat and solid in growth, 
with imposing solid, stolid flowers of a rich clear blue. Frailer than 
these two rarities, and much commoner, but inspired with an un- 
paralleled exquisiteness of grace, is loose-flowered fragile-seeming 
A. n. Robinsoniana, in habit a delicately-waving Wood-anemone, 
forming rapidly into handsome stretches, and tossing up into the winds 
of March its large and gracious rounded stars of a pale powder-blue, 
softly yellowish or creamy outside. And any Cornish wood will provide 
you with as many Blue Kings and Lavender Queens as any list could 
want—to say nothing of the more ordinary rosy and mauve forms— 
atropurpurea, rosea, and so forth. The best I ever saw of these was 
one I found myself in a Cornish wood and called Adonis—especially 
stalwart and sturdy, with burnished mahogany-coloured buds, glossy 
and varnished, the splendid flowers being held perfectly straight 
up into the day, of a brilliant warm vinous lilac. As for white 
varieties, there is, of course, the double form, and a very pretty one 
called bracteata, with all the carpels gone into a neat little rosette of 
whiteness at the centre of each flower, giving a charming effect of dead 
and glacial purity. But the finest form of these is the too-rare 
A. n. Leedsit, which is simply A. nemorosa of enormous size and the 
most stainless snowiness. But in regions fertile of A. nemorosa the 
gardener should incessantly keep a skinned eye for such special forms. 
As for the hybrids of A. nemorosa, they will be found at the end of this 
list among the other children of their parents. 
A. nikoensis is a Nemorosa from the woods of mountainous Japan, 
with sharper leaves, more sharply toothed and divided. 
A, Nuttaliana is an American form or synonym of A. patens, q.v. 
A. obtusiloba should be a really delightful species of the temperate 
and alpine Himalaya, forming large tufts of soft smooth or hairy 
leaves, broad and round and unmercifully cut ; from these rise up the 
stems, six inches to a foot high, each carrying, on pedicles of varying 
lengths, handsome blossoms of gold or white or purple. 
A. occidentalis.—This species has the honour of replacing A. alpina 
in the New World. And not inadequately does it do so—a handsome 
plant of nearly the same stature, with foliage so much more minutely 
divided as to be like the very finest Anthriscus or Cicely. It occurs at 
alpine elevations, down the Rockies (it may be seen by the Lakes in 
the Clouds above Laggan) ; a diminished version of A. alpina with the 
same flowers, rather starrier, but no less white. 
A. palmata is a curious-minded African stranger which just strays 
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