My Garden in Spring 



one's mind the original simply beautiful design of the single 

 Wind flowers and not the double freaks of garden origin. 



I lately saw some huge China Asters with an outside 

 fringe of ray florets of extra length and narrowness, and 

 the disc a mass of large quilled florets. Anything more 

 unlike an ordinary Anemone could hardly be imagined, yet 

 everyone who saw them at once dubbed them "Anemone- 

 flowered," having in mind the race of Chrysanthemums so 

 called, I suppose. 



Analogous instances may be noticed in the way fully 

 doubled flowers are called Rose-flowered, and thus when 

 a double Rose is more than usually rich in petals it has to 

 borrow an epithet from the Cabbage, and the most solid of 

 Cabbages from a drumhead. Let us hope that the limit 

 has been reached there. 



Certain double-flowered Anemones are by no means 

 to be despised : that known as Chapeau de Cardinal, a pure 

 scarlet A. coronaria with the regular centre so well be- 

 loved by the old Dutch painters, is a very glorious thing. 

 It and its brethren the other coronarias are never happy 

 here for long, and their cultivation must be pursued on 

 the buy-and-die system, which I dislike as wasteful and 

 unkind to the plants. But their price is so low that 

 I occasionally invest in a hundred or so to get at least one 

 season's fun out of them. I will not go into raptures over 

 their well-known beauty, nor describe the way we struggle 

 with plants that others can grow with ease, but in spite 

 of their resemblance to stale fruit of Castanea sativa I must 

 indulge myself by retelling tales about coronaria that I 

 myself enjoy. The first is of good Umberto, Bishop of 

 Pisa, who arriving in the Holy Land just too late to be of 

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