Anemones 



this, the largest and loveliest of blue Wood Anemones, when 

 he first saw it among his seedlings. 



It is still rather a rare plant, and is one of those that 

 all who see long for so passionately that it has not spread 

 into a very large clump here yet, but it seems a good 

 grower, and so I hope soon to get broader effects from it. 

 The most effective blue form I have is known as A. 

 nemorosa, var. purpurea, because the closed flowers are 

 quite rosy-purple even in the bud stage, but the open 

 flowers are of a good soft blue. It grows very freely, and I 

 have been able to make several colonies of it. It will 

 grow well in sun or shade, but the flowers are taller 

 and larger and last longer in the shade. It has been 

 found wild more than once in the neighbourhood of Pau, 

 and was mainly distributed by Herr Max Leichtlin. 



Much like it, but of varying shades, are some beautiful 

 forms sent to me from Lismore woods by Miss Currey, 

 who told me that those growing along the banks of the 

 streams were mostly blue, but in the rest of the woods 

 only the ordinary white form occurred. Mr. Allen also 

 raised a beautiful seedling he named Blue Queen and 

 which is the brightest blue of any, quite a Forget-me-not 

 blue and a pretty early flowering form, but on the small 

 side. Celestial is much the same but paler, and I believe 

 another of his seedlings. Then there is the form known 

 as var. coerulea, which is plentiful in certain districts 

 of Wales where the slate crops out. It varies from rosy 

 tinted forms almost as deep as purpurea, to others only 

 flushed with blue in very young blossoms, and the pale 

 forms flower earlier than the deeper ones at least so I 

 find here. 



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