My Garden in Spring 



plant and watching its vagaries, and those people who 

 enjoy statistics might like to tabulate the periodical re- 

 appearances of any particular form. 



The yellow Wood Anemones are not so effective in the 

 borders as the white and blue, but are pleasing in contrast 

 with them. A. ranunculoides in its typical form is rather 

 small flowered, but makes up for that defect when in good 

 health and vigour, by producing two blossoms on each 

 scape, and as the second one does not open until the first 

 has fallen, the flowering period of a clump is lengthened. 

 There is a larger flowered form of it which I believe is found 

 in Italy, and is a good thing, but not plentiful as yet, nor 

 does it spread so quickly here as the older one, which has 

 made wide carpets in some borders. Quite lately a semi- 

 double form has been introduced, and is pretty and well 

 worth growing, as it is not too double to interfere with the 

 central fringe of stamens. My favourite form is one 

 known as var. pallida, with fairly large primrose yellow 

 flowers, but it increases very slowly, and does not form so 

 dense a clump as the others. There is a very interesting 

 hybrid between ranunculoides and nemorosa that is found 

 growing among its parents in Silesia, Saxony, Baden, and 

 Alsace-Lorraine, and is named A. intermedia. It is small 

 in flower, rather thin in texture, and a pale sulphur colour, 

 but is quite worthy of a place in the rock garden, as it is 

 always the first of the nemorosa section to flower, and 

 often breaks through the ground in February, and opens 

 its blossoms a few days after the arched stems have lifted 

 them through the soil. The Italian and Austrian A. trifolia 

 differs from nemorosa chiefly in the curious deep green of 

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