8 POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS 



and The Queen, salmon pink. The flowers of oculata 

 gigantea are of great size. 



The treatment of this class is very similar to that of 

 the Poppy Anemone, and flowers can be had for several 

 months by the same procedure. They like a sunny 

 position. They are tuberous-rooted. * In the ordinary 

 way they will bloom in spring from seed sown the 

 previous spring or tubers planted in autumn. If there 

 is room to spare in a cold frame, it is always worth 

 while to put in a few tubers of Anemone fulgens, as the 

 brilliant scarlet flowers are very cheerful at mid-winter. 



Hepaticas. Our next species is Hepatica, that little 

 plant which has received the popular award of a generic 

 standing, and is grown, not as Anemone Hepatica, but 

 as the Hepatica, in thousands of gardens. It is not a 

 tuberous species, and this fact, coupled with its inclu- 

 sion in the catalogues of most florists apart from the 

 Anemones, deceives non-botanical flower-lovers, who do 

 not look on it as an Anemone at all. 



The common Hepatica, with its three-lobed leaves 

 (triloba) has single lilac flowers, and is a very pretty 

 plant. There are several varieties, such as single red 

 and white, and double red, blue, and white. The last 

 is very rare, and is too expensive to plant in quantity. 

 Angulosa, blue, with its white and rose varieties, is also 

 a Hepatica. 



The Hepaticas have fibrous, not tuberous, roots, and 

 grow about six inches high. With their low, dense 

 growth, early period of blooming, and abundance of 

 bright flowers, they would be valuable rockery plants 

 but for the fact that they cannot endure a sunny 

 position. They love a cool, moist soil and a shady 

 place, and thrive under trees. They should be planted 

 in March, or as soon as the flowers have decayed and 



