424 ANDRYALA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



ANEMONE. 



soot than smoother and larger-leaved 

 evergreen alpine plants do, making them 

 more difficult of culture near cities than 

 most alpine plants. The Androsaces enjoy 

 in cultivation small fissures between rocks 

 or stones, firmly packed with pure sandy 

 peat, or very sandy or gritty loam, not 

 less than 15 in. deep. They should be so 

 placed that no wet can gather or lie about 

 them, and they should be so planted in 

 between stones that, once well rooted into 

 the deep earth all the better if mingled 

 with pieces of broken sand-stone they 

 could never suffer from drought. It is 

 easy to arrange rocks and soils so that, 



Androsace sarmentosa. 



once the mass below is thoroughly 

 moistened, an ordinary drought can have 

 little effect in drying it. 



The names of the species here given 

 mainly require the treatment above 

 described, excepting the spreading Hima- 

 layan, A. lanuginosa, which thrives on 

 walls and sandy borders A. alpijia, 

 carnea, chamtzjasme, helvetica, imbricata, 

 Laggeri, obtusifolia, pubescens, pyrenaica, 

 sarmentosa, Vitaliana and Wulfeniana. 

 They are mostly from the Alps and 

 Pyrenees, a few from the mountains of 

 India. 



ANDRYALA. Small plants of the 

 Dandelion order ; some with woolly leaves. 

 The shrubby A. mogadorensis, forms snowy 

 masses on a little islet on the Morocco 



coast, and has not been found elsewhere. 

 It bears flowers as large as a half-crown, 

 of a bright yellow, the disc being bright 

 orange. Little is known of its culture 

 and hardiness. A. /ana fa has woolly 

 silvery leaves, and grows well in any soil 

 not too damp. 



ANEMONE (Windflower}. \ noble 

 family of tuberous alpine meadow and 

 herbaceous plants, of the Buttercup 

 family, to which is due much of the beauty 

 of spring and early summer of northern 

 and temperate countries. In early spring, 

 or what is winter to us in Northern Europe, 

 when the valleys of Southern Europe and 

 sunny sheltered spots all round the great 

 rocky basin of the Mediterranean are 

 beginning to glow with colour, we see 

 the earliest Windflowers in all their 

 loveliness. Those arid mountains that 

 look so barren have on their sunny sides 

 carpets of Anemones in countless variety. 

 These belong to old favourites in our 

 gardens the garland Windflower and 

 the Peacock Anemone. Later on the Star 

 Anemone begins, and troops in thousands 

 over the terraces, meadows, and fields of 

 the same regions. Climbing the moun- 

 tains in April, the Hepatica nestles in 

 nooks all over the bushy parts of the 

 hills. Farther east, while the common 

 Anemones are aflame along the Riviera 

 valleys and terraces, the blue Greek 

 Anemone is open on the hills of Greece ; 

 a little later the blue Apennine Anemone 

 blossoms. Meanwhile our Wood Ane- 

 mone adorns the woods throughout the 

 northern world, and here and there 

 through the brown Grass on the chalk 

 hills comes the purple of the Pasque- 

 flower. The Grass has grown tall before 

 the graceful Alpine Windflower flowers 

 in all the natural meadows of the Alps ; 

 while later on bloom the high alpine Wind- 

 flowers, which soon flower and fruit, and 

 are ready to sleep for nine months in 

 the snow. These are but few examples 

 of what is done for the northern and 

 temperate world by these Windflowers, so 

 precious for our gardens also. 



A. alpina (A Ipinc Wind/lower}. 

 On nearly every great mountain range 

 in northern climes this is one of the 

 handsomest plants, growing 15 in. to 

 2 ft. high. It grows more slowly in gar- 

 dens than most of the other kinds, and 

 should have deep soil. A. siilphurca is a 

 fine variety. Many fail with it through 

 transplanting in autumn and winter. Seed 

 is the best way to increase it. Sow this 

 in November in a rather moist peaty bed 

 out-of-doors and allow the seedlings to 

 remain for two years. When growth 



