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none of them nearly so well worthy of culture as 

 this. 



Next come the windflowers, or Anemones, four 

 kinds, all good ; . two of them — A. nemorosa, 

 the wood anemone, and A, apennina, the blue 

 anemone — indispensable. The wood anemone is 

 a charming thing, either in its wild or cultivated 

 state, and besides the normal white variety there 

 are a red and a bluish one, also a double white 

 variety, very desirable, though not common. They 

 grow in the open border, on rockwork, &c., quite as 

 well as in the shade. As for the blue anemone, it 

 is simply one of the loveliest spring flowers of any 

 clime and should be in every garden, both in the 

 borders and scattered thinly here and there in 

 woods and shrubberies, so that it may become "natu- 

 ralized." The flowers are freely produced, and of 

 the loveliest blue. It is scarcely a true British flower, 

 so to speak, its home being the south of Europe ; 

 but, having strayed into our wilds and plantations 

 occasionally, it is now included in books on British 

 plants, and may be easily obtained in most nur- 

 series that grow spring flowers or herbaceous plants- 



The Pasque anemone, or Pasque-flower, is 

 an important native, bearing large flowers of 

 a dull violet purple, silky outside. It is fond 



