Anemones 



tinental nursery, and I could soon see the other forms 

 might be allowed to die out for want of replanting, for the 

 newcomer gives abundance of larger and purer white 

 flowers, does not travel too rapidly, as every one who sees 

 it wants it and carries off the outliers, and best of all it 

 does not die out in the centre when it has occupied the 

 ground for more than two seasons, so the crevice in the 

 rock garden in which it was first planted is still full of it, 

 and the large, white flowers come in Spring, then the ripe 

 seeds like lumps of cotton wool follow, and are very white 

 and ornamental, and till late in the autumn the plant is 

 continually throwing up a fresh flower-stem or two. I still 

 keep the double-flowered form because I like its wonder- 

 fully full flowers when they appear, and also because it 

 has taken possession of the slate bank of the rock garden 

 and would be hard to dislodge. 



Some day I hope A. alpina and A. sulphur eaw\\\ be worth 

 writing about here ; at present they are mostly playing the 

 role of foliage plants, which any Carrot or Parsley could 

 do as effectively. Some are only seedlings, and so cannot 

 be blamed, but others I brought from Mt. Cenis, where 

 one walks for miles among knee-high tufts, and now and 

 then is obliged to stop and admire the extra light turquoise 

 back of one, the soft sulphur tint or pure dazzling white of 

 another, the semi-double or extra wide sepalled flowers of 

 more, and wonder which is the most beautiful. Unless 

 Ranunculus Lyallii covers the Alps of New Zealand with 

 a wonderfully lavish profusion of flowers I feel sure A. 

 alpina on Mt. Cenis must afford the most beautiful floral 

 display of the world. It looks so hardy and easy to 

 219 



