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of these plants sends up a little fountain of small golden flowers. For 

 bare, stony, or rocky banks, poor sandy ground, and ruins, they are 

 admirable. Alyssiun Wiersbecki and A. saxatile are strong enough 

 to take care of themselves on the mai^gins of shrubberies, etc., where 

 the vegetation is not very coarse, but they are more valuable for rocky 

 or stony places, or old ruins, and thrive freely on cottage garden walls 

 iu some districts ; some of the less grown species would be welcome 

 in such places. There are many species, natives of Germany, Russia, 

 France, Ital^', Corsica, Sicily, Hungary, and Dalmatia ; Asia, principally 

 Siberia, the Altai Mountains, Georgia, Persia, and the entire basin of 

 the Caspian, is rich in them. 



Windflower, Anemone. — A numerous race of dwarf herT)s that 



The Alpine Windflower (Anemone alpina). 



contribute largely to the most beautiful effects of the mountain, wood, 

 and pasture vegetation of all northern and temperate climes. The 

 flowers vary from intense scarlet to the softest blue ; most of the exotic 

 kinds would thrive as well in our woodlands and meadows as they do 

 in tlieir own. There is hardly a position they may not adorn — warm, 

 sunny, bare banks, on whicli tlie Grecian A. blanda might open its 

 large Iduc flowers in winter ; the tangled copse, where the Japan 

 Windflower and its varieties might make a bold show in autumn ; 

 and the shady wood, where the Apennine Windflower would contrast 

 charmingly with the Wood Anemone so abundantly scattered in our 



