i88 MY GARDEN 



Cornus canadensis and the pure white Pennsyl- 

 vanian wood-anemone are fighting for mastery here, 

 and cornus is being beaten. I must take this little 

 dainty dogwood away and give him a place to 

 develop at ease. The anemone is a swift grower, 

 and has all the energy and determination to succeed 

 that marks so many plants I get from America. You 

 may know it and grow it as A. dichotoma. Wald- 

 steinia follows, with trefoil leaves and bright yellow 

 flowers, like a potentilla. Next one of my favourites 

 may be met with. From a dewy dingle beside Dart 

 I took her, and without a murmur she left that haunt 

 of beauty herself not the least lovely thing, though 

 quite the tiniest, in that scene of flower and song, 

 glittering waters and green leaves. Sibthorpia 

 europaea, the Cornish moneywort, is rather a rare 

 British plant. Professor Nicholson would not have 

 called it "more curious than beautiful" had he seen 

 its fairy-like loveliness spread at the footstools of the 

 great king-fern by river's brink, whence I brought my 

 specimen. It prospers well in a cool, damp spot ; 

 but its cousin, S. peregrina, from Madeira, must have 

 a cold frame. A white phyteuma from the Tyrol is 

 here also, and campanulas do well along with it. C. 

 garganica and C. turbinata have to be pushed aside in 

 September for the upspringing blossoms of colchicums. 



Pratia repens, a little gem from the Falkland Islands, 

 both flowers and fruits freely. It spreads fast, and 

 after being covered with pure white, lobelia-like 

 flowers, the herb produces pale purple berries of a very 

 ornamental character. Above it dwells that strange, 



