Anemones 



generally out together, and make a fine display in the 

 sunshine. 



The pure white is pretty if a really good form is pro- 

 cured, but the variety scythinica, at one time misnamed 

 cypriana, is particularly lovely, as it is rich sapphire blue 

 outside but pure glistening white within, and a half ex- 

 panded flower showing the contrasting colouring is a sight 

 worth looking at. Both in this band, and in the rock 

 garden, this form not only thrives but seeds freely, and the 

 greater number of the babes are as handsome as their 

 parents : a few washy ones have appeared, but I suspect 

 them of being bastards, and should say if grown isolated 

 from other blanda forms the seedlings would all come true 

 scythinica. It comes into flower rather later than the 

 blue forms here, and lasts on longer than any. There is 

 a lovely rose-coloured form, but rather scarce, and it is wise 

 only to buy var. rosea when seen in flower, for some shades 

 of mauvy pink and pinky mauve are quite unnecessary in 

 a plant with good blue and pink forms. I complained to 

 a friend that I could no longer obtain the best pink form 

 from a certain nursery, and he owned up that he had over- 

 hauled their stock one Spring and left them none to send 

 to me. In reparation he most kindly gave me the best 

 form I have ever seen. 



A few years ago Bishop Umberto's miraculous Anemone 

 was surpassed, for the bed under the south wall of Bitton 

 garden presented its scholarly chronicler and venerable 

 master with a tribute of its affection in return for his wise 

 and kindly rule of over half a century, in the shape of a 

 set of seedling A. blanda beautifully double and ranging 

 in colour from pale lavender blue to deep ultramarine. 

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