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tion of the double form, where the mass of yellow 

 anthers is replaced by a white frilling. In turning 

 over our copy of Gerard " Of the Historic of 

 Plants," the edition being that of the year 1633, 

 we are interested to see an illustration of this 

 double white wood anemone. He writes of it : 

 " There is in some choice gardens one of this 

 kinde with white floures very double, and I had 

 one of them given me by a Worshipfull Merchant 

 of London, called Mr. John Franqueville, my very 

 good friend." The form, as he gives it, lacks 

 the elegance of growth of our plant of the year 

 1908. As we see it priced at threepence a root 

 in a gardener's catalogue l its acquisition can 

 scarcely be held an extravagance, though ours, 

 the gift of a botanical friend, now gone hence, 

 has a more tender association. 



The yellow anemone, botanically the A. ranuncu- 

 loides, and the mountain anemone, the A. Apennina, 

 are both South European specimens, but are occa- 

 sionally found, as escapes, in England, and have 

 obtained in consequence a somewhat dubious place 

 in our British plant lists. The first of these has 

 flowers of a bright golden yellow we figure it on 



1 If we once allow ourselves to come under the spell of 

 these tempting productions, many beautiful anemones are 

 open to us A. Robinsoniana, with large sky-blue flowers, 

 A. fulgens, gloriously crimson, and others that we need not 

 name, having blossoms of a deep blue, rich purple, sulphur 

 yellow, pale rose, straw-colour, and many other varieties. 



