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gentians are beautiful and worthy of special 

 culture ; all, however, are difficult to raise from 

 seed. 



A classic flower, for it occurs in Greece and 

 along the Mediterranean, is the scarlet wind- 

 flower (Anemone fulgens). Its early flowering 

 habit causes it to start so soon that, while un- 

 questionably hardy with protection, it simply 

 throws up its leaves without blossoming. In 

 its own country it comes up in autumn, but the 

 winters are so mild it does not suffer. It should 

 be treated like the tazzetta Narcissus, and its 

 tubers stored until November ; a red wind-flow- 

 er is so unusual a departure from the type that 

 one can afford to bestow upon it special pains. 

 A.pulsattlla, the European pasque-flower, distin- 

 guished for its large, solitary, violet-purple flow- 

 ers, succeeds in well-drained limestone soil. The 

 double of the common native wind-flower (A. 

 nemorosa), discovered a few years since in Con- 

 necticut, is said to be a valuable variety, lasting 

 much longer in bloom than the type. The snow- 

 drop wind-flower (A. sylvestris), of Siberia and 

 central Europe, is a lovely species, bearing me- 

 dium-sized white flowers and blossoming in June, 

 not unlike a small white Japanese anemone. A. 

 palmata, Alpina, and blanda are all tender 

 species, and so difficult to manage in England 



