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THE WILD GARDEN. 



as a creeper over old stumps, trellising, or the like. Cle- 

 matis campaniflora, with flowers like a campanula, and of a 

 pale purplish hue, and the beautiful white Clematis montana 

 grandiflora, a native of Nepaul, are almost ecpially beautiful, 

 and many others of the family are worthy of a place, rambling- 

 over old trees, bushes, hedgerows, or tang- 

 ling over banks. Tliese single wild species 

 (if Clematis are more graceful than the 

 large Hybrids now common ; tbey are 

 very hardy and free. In mild and sea- 

 shore districts a beautiful kind, common 

 in Algeria, and in the islands on and tlie 

 shores of the ]\Iediterranean (Clematis 

 cirrhosa), will be found most valuable — 

 being nearly evergreen, and flowering very 

 early in spring — even in winter in the 

 South of England. 



Next in tliis order we come to the 

 Wind ilowers, or Anemones, and here 

 we must pause to select, for more beauti- 

 ful flowers do not adorn this world oi' 

 floM'ers. Have we a bit of rich urass not 

 niOM'n ? If so, the lieautiful downy white and yellow 

 Anemones of the Alps (A. alpina and A. sulphurea) may l>e 

 grown there. Any sunny bushy l)aid<; or southern slope 

 which we wish to embellisli with vernal beauty ? Then 

 select Anemone blanda, a small l)ut lovely blue kind; ])lace 

 it in open bare spots to l^egin witb, as it is very dwarf, and 

 it will at Christmas, and from that time onward through 

 the spring, open its large flowers of the deejDest sky blue. 



The Mountain Clematis 

 (C. montana). 



