a8 The Wild Garden. 



as large as a five-shilling piece, and of the deepest 

 sky blue. The common garden Anemone (A. Coro- 

 naria) will not be fastidious, but had better be 

 placed in open bare places ; and the splendid Ane- 

 mone fulgens, when it can be spared for the pur- 

 pose, will prove a most attractive ornament, as it 

 glows with the most fiery scarlet. It should have 

 an open spot where the herbage is dwarf. Of other 

 Anemones, hardy, free, and beautiful enough to be 

 made wild in our shrubberies, pleasure-grounds, and 

 wilds, the Japan Anemone (A. japonica), and its 

 white descendant, A. j. Honorine Jobert, A. trifolia, 

 and A. sylvestris, are the best of the exotic species. 

 The Japan Anemone and A. hybrida, and the white 

 Honorine Jobert, grow so strongly that they will 

 take care of themselves even among stiff brushwood, 

 brambles, &c. ; and they are beautifully fitted for 

 scattering along the low, half-wild margins of shrub- 

 beries, &c. The interesting little A. trifolia is not 

 unlike our own wood Anemone, and will grow in 

 similar places. 



As for the Apennine Anemone, it is simply one 

 of the loveliest spring flowers of any clime, and 

 should be in every garden, in the borders, and scat- 

 tered thinly here and there in woods and shrubberies, 

 so that it may become " naturalized." The flowers 



