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March or April, and should be mixed with dry soil or 

 sand to separate them. The double Crown Anemones 

 are very beautiful, although not so much grown as when 

 they were favourite florists' flowers. They are of almost 

 every colour but yellow. A good white is named " The 

 Bride." 



A. fischeriana, a Siberian plant, grows about six inches 

 high, and has white flowers. A. intermedia is a new 

 Anemone with yellowish flowers, and seems allied to 

 nemorosa. 



A. nemorosa, our native Windflower, gives us several 

 lovely forms. The double form, A. n. flore-pleno, is very 

 beautiful, and there are a few large-flowered forms, 

 besides the pretty bracteata, which has ruff-like green 

 bracts round the flower. The variety rosea and its 

 double form have rosy flowers, and caerulea has pretty 

 blue blooms, but is surpassed by the charming robin- 

 soniana of a brighter blue. Alleni is even larger and 

 better coloured than the last-named. All these like 

 shade and peaty soil. 



A. palmata is a lovely little plant, which grows from 

 six to nine inches high, and has yellow flowers. There 

 is a white variety, and a very rare double one. It likes 

 a moist, peaty soil. 



A. ranunculoides is a pretty little native species of the 

 nemorosa type, but with smaller yellow flowers. The 

 variety pallida, with pale yellow blooms, is very pretty. 



A. stellata, or hortensis, is a pretty southern Anemone 

 which is not so good in cold districts as A. coronaria, 

 although pretty and varied in its colouring. It likes 

 a warm soil and sunny position. There are pretty 

 "Chrysanthemum -flowered" double varieties, and a 

 double red, different from fulgens fl. pi., which blooms 

 pretty well, even where the other forms do not succeed. 

 All of these may be grown from seed or by division of 

 the tuber before planting. 



