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richest colour and noblest flowers, putting the roots 

 in a position where they could descend at pleasure 

 into a rich and deep vein of good earth. The 

 warmth of the recumbent position on the stone, and 

 the shelter, could not fail to make them feel at 

 home, and I can imagine nothing more effective 

 than a sheet of these falling over the face of such 

 large stones as those in the rockwork at Chatsworth, 

 and a few other gardens where large things in this 

 way have been attempted. The beauty displayed by 

 these large varieties of Clematis when planted in a 

 deep light soil is only to be realized by those who 

 have seen it. 



Next we come to the Wind Flowers, or Ane- 

 mones, and here we must pause to select, for a 

 more attractive class of hardy flowers does not 

 beautify any northern clime. Have you a bit of bare, 

 stony ground, slightly shaded perhaps .? If so, the 

 beautiful downy white and yellow Anemones of the 

 Alps (A. alpina and A. sulphurea) may be grown 

 there. Any kind of wood or shrubbery which you 

 wish to embellish with the choicest vernal beauty >. 

 Then select Anemone blanda, a small but lovely blue 

 kind ; place it in open bare spots to begin with, as 

 it is very dwarf, and it will at Christmas, and from 

 that time onward through the spring, open flowers 



