18 HARDY PERENNIALS AND 



so pleasingly distinct, are arranged in an even tuft, being much 

 shorter than the outer or normal sepals, the size and form of 

 which remain true to the type. The pure white flower more 

 than an inch across is somewhat distant from the handsome 

 three-leaved involucrum, and is supported by a wiry flower stalk, 

 Sin. to Sin. long ; it is about the same length from the root, 

 otherwise the plant is stemless. The flowers are produced singly, 

 and have six to eight petal-like sepals ; the leaves are ternately 

 cut ; leaflets or segments three-cut, lanceolate, and deeply toothed ; 

 petioles channelled ; the roots are long and round, of about the 

 thickness of a pen-holder. This plant grown in bold clumps is 

 indispensable for the choice spring garden ; its quiet beauty is 

 much admired. 



It enjoys a strongish loam, and a slightly shaded situation will 

 conduce to its lengthened flowering, and also tend to luxuriance. 

 Soon after the flowers fade the foliage begins to dry up ; care 

 should, therefore, be taken to have some other suitable flower 

 growing near it, so as to avoid dead or blank spaces. Pentste- 

 mons, rooted cuttings of which are very handy at this season for 

 transplanting, are well adapted for such use and situations, 

 and as their flowers cannot endure hot sunshine without suffering 

 more or less, such half-shady quarters will be just the places 

 for them. 



The double white Wood Anemone may be propagated by 

 divisions of the tubers, after the foliage has completely withered. 



Flowering period, May. 



Anemone Pulsatilla. 



PASQUE FLOWER ; Nat. Ord. RANUNCULACE^E. 



A BRITISH species. This beautiful flower has long been cul- 

 tivated in our gardens, and is deservedly a great favourite. 

 It may not be uninteresting to give the other common and 

 ancient names of the Easter Flower, as in every way this is not 

 only an old plant, but an old-fashioned flower. " Passe Flower " 

 and " Flaw Flower " come from the above common names, 

 being only derivations, but in Cambridgeshire, where it grows 

 wild, it is called " Coventry Bells " and " Hill Tulip." Three 

 hundred years ago Gerarde gave the following description of 

 it, which, together with the illustration (Fig. 9), will, I trust, 

 be found ample : "These Passe flowers hath many small leaues, 

 finely cut or iagged, like those of carrots, among which rise 

 up naked stalks, rough and hairie ; whereupon do growe 

 beautiful flowers bell fashion, of a bright delaied purple colour ; 

 in the bottome whereof groweth a tuft of yellow thrums, 

 and in the middle of the thrums thrusteth foorth a small 

 purple pointell ; when the whole flower is past, there succeedeth 

 an head or knoppe, compact of many graie hairie lockes, and in 



