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The Wild Garden 



the blue Anemone — indispensable for our garden. 

 The wood Anemone is pretty either in its wild or 

 cultivated state, and besides the common white variety 

 there are a reddish and a double white variety. 

 The most beautiful form of our wood Anemone which 

 has come into the garden in our day is the large 



ROBINSON BLUE WINDFLOWEE. A laxije sky-b]ue form of the wood Aaemone. 



sky-blue form. I first saw it as a small tuft at 

 Oxford, and grew it in London where it was often 

 seen with me in bloom by Mr. Boswell Syme, 

 author of the Third Edition of Sowerby, who had 

 a great love for plants in a living state as well as 

 in their merely ' botanical ' aspects, and we were 



