Anemones 



Two very fine forms are listed under the one name of 

 grandiflora ; one is a tall grower with long and narrow 

 leaflets, and the flower also is rather starry and slightly 

 doubled and faintly flushed with pink, and I believe it was 

 found in Ireland some years ago by Lady Doneraile. I 

 do not like it so much as the other form, which I have 

 always called Leeds' variety, as Dr. Lowe gave it to me 

 under that name, and told me he had it from Leeds him- 

 self, but I do not know whether he was the finder of it. 



There is a good figure of it in the Garden for October 

 15, 1887, and Burbridge wrote about it later as "a large, 

 pure-white form, very distinct and beautiful. I first saw 

 it at Munstead, and I think it was there called Dr. Lowe's 

 Variety. In general size and stature it resembles the 

 lovely pale or lavender-blue Robinsoniana which may 

 possibly be a form of it, varying mainly in colour." I 

 have always felt the same about it, and have tried to find 

 out where both of them grow wild, and hope that at last 

 I am on the right scent, for a year ago I saw in a 

 Herefordshire garden a form of blue Anemone evidently 

 Robinsoniana, but with a redder tint on the stalks and young 

 leaves, and learnt that it came from a wood in Norway. 

 I am now the happy possessor of some of this stock, and 

 am watching its behaviour beside the older form. But I 

 want very much to see what Norwegian white Wood 

 Anemones are like, as I hope they may prove to be Leeds' 

 Variety. I have never seen any wild forms from Britain 

 or Ireland that approach these in the width of segments 

 and good form. Leeds' is perhaps even more perfectly 

 shaped and formed like a single Rose than is Robinsoniana, 

 and its bright green, ample leaves make a fine background 



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