24 THE WILD GARDEN. 



Few plants are more lovely in the wild garden than the 

 White Japan Anemone. The idea of the wild garden first 

 arose in the writer's mind as a home for a numerous class 

 of coarse -growing plants, to which people begrudge room 

 in their borders, such as the Golden Eods, Michaelmas Daisies, 

 Compass plants, and a host of otliers, which are l)eautiful fur 

 a season only, or perhaps too rampant for what are called 

 choice borders and beds. This Anemone is one of the most 

 beautiful of garden flowers, and one which is as well 

 suited for the wild garden as the kinds alluded to. It 

 grows well in any good soil in copse or sln-ubbery, and 

 increases rapidly. Partial shade seems to suit it ; and in any 

 case the effect of the large white flowers is, if anything, more 

 beautiful in half- shady places. The flowers, too, are more 

 lasting here than where they are fully exposed. 



As for the Apennine Anemone (the wliite as well as the 

 blue variety), it is one of the loveliest spring flowers of any 

 clime, and should l)e in every garden, in the borders, and 

 scattered thinly here and there in woods and shrubberies, so 

 that it may become " naturalised." It is scarcely a British 

 flower, being a native of the south of Europe ; l)ut having 

 strayed into our wilds and plaiitations occasionally, it is 

 now included in most books on British plants. The yellow 

 A. ranuncnloides, a doul)tful native, found in one or two spots, 

 but not really British, is well worth growing, tliriving well 

 on the chalk, and being very Ijeautifiil. 



The large Hepatica angulosa will grow almost as 

 freely as Celandine among shrubs and in half-shady spots, 

 and we all know how readily the old kinds grow on all 

 garden soils of ordinary quality. There are about ten or 



