122 ALPINE PLANTS 
until the last should challenge the Michaelmas daisies 
for colour and for grace. Anemones for the rockery, 
the open ground, and for pots and pans, and as varied in 
size and form as they are in colours, may be obtained at 
small cost, and grown with surpris- 
ing ease if just one or two require- 
ments are recognized and provided. 
To see a flourishing group of any 
of the principal species of Ane- 
mones, with their elegantly cut 
foliage, their graceful stems, and 
chaste, apparently fragile, but actu- 
ally substantial blossoms, is a sight 
no one with sense to appreciate 
ANEMONE SyLvesTRIs. true beauty can be indifferent to; 
yet, strangely enough, we more 
often see a few straggling, sickly looking plants, feebly 
endeavouring to reveal their charms, but attaining only 
disappointing results. ’Tis the greater pity that this is so, 
because it is a matter that might be so easily altered. 
The greater number of Anemones are small plants, and 
are of necessity gregarious, if the word may be applied to 
plants as it is to birds that love to congregate in flocks, 
rather than seek isolation from their kind. It is therefore 
an error, although frequently occurring, to dot the roots 
of Anemones singly, either in little pockets on the rockery 
or in the spaces between plants of a totally different 
character. Whether one has half a dozen or half a hundred 
roots of any one kind of Anemone, it is preferable to plant 
in one mass than to scatter them about. The second 

