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Gardening for Amateurs 



will continue to increase and blossom freely 

 for years. The flower spikes appear during 

 September, the plants continuing to make 

 a delightful display in October. The leaves 

 appear early in the New Year, after the 

 flower spikes have disappeared. Give water 



Anemone King of the Scarlets, a brilliant 

 double variety. 



during dry weather ; liquid manure is 

 beneficial in spring. In addition to the 

 typical kind, 2 feet high, which has fragrant 

 rose-pink flowers, there are several varieties ; 

 purpurea major (maxima) is richer in colour, 

 taller, and earlier flowering ; var. blanda is 

 lighter in colour ; var. Kewensis has many 

 more flowers in the bunch, and grows 3 feet 

 high ; var. pallida has pale rose-coloured 

 blooms. 



Anemone (Windflower). No garden, 

 however small, should be without some of 

 the Windflowers. Some delight in partial 

 shade, while others provide gorgeous masses 

 of colour for sunny beds and borders. The 

 several species and varieties divide naturally 

 into two sections those suitable for the wild 

 garden and permanent planting and others 

 suitable for beds and borders, the roots being 

 lifted annually, after flowering, to make 

 room for late summer and autumn plants. 



Among those of the first section one of the 

 most beautiful is A. apennina, the blue 

 Mountain Windflower, which forms a sheet 

 of sky-blue during March and early April. 

 It is a lovely plant for shady and half-shady 

 nooks, for covering the ground beneath 

 deciduous shrubs, for naturalising in grass, 

 among hardy ferns, or for planting in the 

 rock garden. There is a white variety, alba ; 

 both grow about 6 inches high. A. blanda, 

 the Grecian Windflower, has rich blue flowers 

 opening a little in advance of the last named. 

 Several distinct varieties of this are : alba, 

 white ; grandiflora, large, light blue ; scyth- 

 inica, white, shaded blue ; and taurica, pale 

 blue. A. nemorosa, the wild English Wood 

 Anemone, may worthily find a place in the 

 wild garden and shady nooks, where 

 herbaceous plants do not thrive. The 

 blooms are tinged with pale rose, and there 

 is a white variety, alba. The double- flowered 

 forms, alba flore pleno and rosea flore pleno 

 are very charming. Anemone Robinsoiiiana 

 is a large-flowered, pale lavender sort, and 

 bracteata flore pleno, or Jack-in-the-Green, 

 has a pretty double white flower resting on 

 a leafy bract. A yellow Wood Anemone 

 may appear a novelty to many, but there 

 is one, and a delightful little plant it is, with 

 golden-yellow blossoms opening in March 

 and April. All these dwarf Windflowers 

 thrive in similar positions to those recom- 

 mended for A. apennina, and grow about 

 the same height. Ordinary soil suits them, 

 the least satisfactory being that which is 

 very dry or heavy and clayey. Plant the 

 roots from August to October, 3 inches deep, 

 and put them 2 to 3 inches apart, to obtain 

 a good display in a year or two. The 

 readiest means of increase is by division of 

 the tubers, but seeds may also be sown as 

 soon as ripe. 



A gorgeous display of colour in bed or 

 border is obtained towards the end of April 

 and during May by planting the St. Brigid 

 Poppy and Scarlet Windflowers. They are 

 cheap, the average price of each root works 

 out at a farthing to a penny, according to 

 the variety. Seedlings also are easily raised, 

 sowings being made preferably in July or 

 August as soon as the seeds are ripe. Oc- 

 tober is a suitable time to plant the roots, 

 and a second planting may be made in 



