46 The Wild Garden. 



Alpine ■Wind-IT.ower. Anemone alpina: Alps. Her- 

 baceous perennial ; 4 to 20 inches ; white and purplish on 

 the outside of the petals ; summer ; seed and division. — 

 On grassy banks, in unmown parts of the pleasure-grounds 

 or open spots in woods, in which it ought to attain as 

 great perfection as it does in sub-alpine meadows. 



Apennine Wind -Flower. Anemone apennina. 

 Europe. Tuber ; 3 to 9 inches ; blue ; spring ; division. 

 — Rocks, stony places, in exposed positions, and also in 

 bare shady or half-shady places, in groves, and by the 

 side of avenues and wood walks. It may, in fact, be grown 

 with success wherever the common wood-anemone thrives. 



Poppy Wind-Plower. Anemone Coronaria. Levant 

 Tuber ; 6 to 1 2 inches ; striped ; spring ; seed and divi- 

 sion. — Open sunny places, fringes of shrubberies, banks, 

 etc., where there is a dwarf vegetation. 



Japanese Wind-Flower. Anemone japonica. Japan. 

 Herbaceous perennial; 2 feet; reddish ; autumn; division. 

 — ^Woods, copses, brakes, amongst masses of Cotoneaster 

 and other prostrate shrubs, margins of slirubberies, in fact 

 in almost any position and soil. 



White Japanese Wind-jlower. Anemone japonica var. 

 Honorine Jobert. Garden variety. Herbaceous perennial; 

 2 feet; white; autumn; division. — Similar positions to those 

 for the preceding, than which it is even a finer plant. 



Crowfoot Wind-Flower. Anemone ranunculoides. 

 Middle and Northern Europe. Tuber ; 6 inches ; yellow ; 

 spring ; seeds or division. — Does best in chalky or warm 

 dry soils, in spots where there is a dwarf vegetation. 



Snowdrop Wind -Flower. Anemone sylvesfris, 

 Europe. Herbaceous perennial; i to r^ feet; white 



