Example from the Globe Flower Order 33 



perhaps too rampant for what are called choice , bor- 

 ders and beds. This Anemone is one of the most 

 beautiful of garden flowers, and one which is as well 

 suited for the wild garden as the coarsest. Partial 

 shade seems to suit it; and in any case the effect of 

 thVTarge white flowers is, if anything, more beautiful 

 in. half-shady places. The flowers, too, are more 

 lasting here than where they are fully exposed. 



As for the Apennine Anemone (the white as well 

 as the blue forms), it is one of the prettiest flowers 

 of any clime, and should be in every garden, in the 

 borders, and scattered in woods and shrubberies. 

 I have planted many thousands of it in various 

 soils, and it never fails, though it shows a great 

 difference in growth and freedom of bloom, according 

 to the soil, being much larger for example on warm free 

 Irish limestone soils than on cool soils in Sussex. But 

 it is so well worth growing everywhere that for it 

 alone it would be worth while to form a wild garden ! 

 Near to it is the also beautiful blue Windflower of the 

 Greek hills, in effect like the blue Apennine Wind- 

 flower, but more varied in size and colour to the south, 

 and in some of its forms earher in bloom in spring. This 

 might perhaps not have the same love for the grass as 

 the Italian blue Anemone, but if not it would be easy 

 to naturahze in bare or stony places. T^ yellow 

 A. ranunculoides, a doubtful native, found in one or two 

 spots, but not really British, is strange and charming 

 but flowers weU only on chalk. 



