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They are both of easy culture in the garden if given a shady spot, either 

 among shrubs or under trees, where the sunlight sifts down through the branches 

 or where the shadow of fence or buildings will screen them from the hot rays of 

 noontide sun. They will abundantly repay a little care in the giving them a 

 yearly dressing of fresh leaf mould, or rotted turf, and in the autumn a light 

 covering of fallen leaves, which may be allowed to remain. It is said that 

 under generous treatment the flowers become sometimes double, though this has 

 not occurred in the writer's experience ; nevertheless a well-cared for bed of 

 them, even if the flowers are all single, is a most beautiful and pleasing object 

 in the early spring. 



anemone tribe — Getws Thcilictrum. 



The Rue-anemone, Thalictrum anemonoides, is the best of our species for 

 the flower garden. It blooms at the same time as our wood anemone, described 

 in the April number, page 140, and is often found associated with it. None of 

 the species have any petals. In most of them the flowers are small, and the 

 sepals fall early, but the sepals of this one are half an inch long, oval in form, 

 numbering variously from five to ten, usually white, sometimes, though rarely, 

 suffused with pink, and do not fall early. The radical leaves are compound, 

 composed of three leaflets that are three lobed at the end and heart-shaped 

 at the base. The stem leaves are in the form of an involucre at the top. 

 Occasionally the sepals are three-lobed like the leaflets. It is quite common 

 in the woods, its distribution extending from Canada to North Carolina, and it 

 is a pleasing flower in the garden as a companion with other early spring 

 flowering plants. 



Our remaining species are none of them particularly desirable for the flower 

 garden. The following are found in Canada, and will be interesting to the 

 botanist or student making a collection of Canadian plants : 



Early Meadow-Rue, T. dioicum, is common from Gaspe to the Pacific, 

 and as far north as latitude 67°. It grows from one to two feet high, and blooms 

 in April or May, varying as to date according to the locality. The flowers are 

 purplish and greenish. 



Purplish Meadow-Rue, T. purpurescens, grows to the height of two to 

 four feet ; is found on dry uplands and rocky hills, and is mentioned as growing 

 near Belleville and London, Ont. Blooms in May or June. 



Tall Meadow-Rue, T. cornuti, is found growing around springs and small 

 streams, and in wet meadows. It varies in height from four to eight feet, and 

 is quite common from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the Pacific. May 

 be found in bloom from July to September. Flowers white. 



crowfoot or buttercup tribe — Genus Ranunculus. 

 There is at least a dozen species of this genus growing in Canada. Two 

 of them are aquatic, and unless one has a pond in which to grow them, they 

 cannot be used as ornamental plants. 



