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cottage garden walls in some districts. There are many 

 species, natives of Germany, Russia, France, Italy, Hungary, 

 and Dalmatia ; Asia, principally Siberia, the Altai Mountains, 

 Georgia, Persia, and the entire basin of the Caspian, is rich 

 in them. 



Windflower, Anemone. — A numerous race of dwarf herbs 

 that contribute much to the most beautiful effects of the 

 mountain, wood, and pasture vegetation of all northern and 

 temperate climes. The flowers vary from intense scarlet to 

 the softest blue ; many of the exotic kinds would thrive as 

 well in our woodlands and meadows as they do in their own. 

 There is hardly a position they may not adorn — warm, sunny, 

 bare banks, on which the Grecian A. blanda might open its 

 large blue flowers in winter; the tangled copse, where the 

 Japan Windflower and its varieties might make a bold show 

 in autumn ; and the grove, where the Apennine Windflower 

 would contrast charmingly with the Wood Anemone so 

 abundantly scattered in our own woods. The Hepaticas 

 should be considered as belonging to the same genus, not 

 forgetting the Hungarian one, A. angulosa. The Hepaticas 

 thrive best and are seen best in half woody places, where the 

 spring sun may cheer them by passing through the branches, 

 which afterwards become leafy and shade them from the 

 scorching heats of summer. 



St. Bruno's Lily, Anthericum. — One of the most lovely 

 effects in the alpine meadows of Europe is that of the delicate 

 white flowers of the St. Bruno's Lily in the Grass in early 

 summer, looking like miniature white Lilies. All who have 

 seen it would no doubt like to enjoy the same on their 

 Grassy meadows. The large-flowered or major variety might 

 be tried with advantage in this way, and the smaller-flowered 

 kinds, A. Liliago and its varieties, are pretty. They are not 



