114 LITTLE GARDENS 
heavy soil. Ordinary garden soil suits if well manured. Other 
‘Anremronek worth meine are the following : The Wood Anemone, 
white flowers in April, easily grown in light soil in partial shade ; 
suitable for rock garden. The Scarlet Windflower, A. fulgens, most 
brilliant of all, though not quite so easy to grow as some ; needs a 
well drained soil. The Pasque Flower, A. pulsatilla, a flower of 
unique charm; the purple, silky blooms are very beautiful ; when 
grown among 
hardy ferns an ad- 
mirable picture re- 
sults: the Anemone 
blooms as the ferns 
begin to grow; suit- 
able for the rock 
garden inaposition 
facing west. The 
common Hepatica 
(with blue, red, or 
| white flowers); the 
, Grecian Wind- 
flower, A. blanda ; 
| the blue Apennine 
Windflower, A. 
Apennina, and 
the Snowdrop 
Anemone, A. syl- 
vestris, a graceful 
white flower on 
stems some 10 
inches high, are 
others well worth 
growing in little 
gardens. 
Aquilegia or 
Columbine. — A 
Ds Oe the! favourite flower, 
THE JAPANESE ANEMONE. invaluable for cut- 
ting; raised from 
. seed sown in May. 
Quite easy to grow in fair border soil, and likes a half shady spot. 
A packet of mixed seed will give quite a remarkable variety of 
colouring. 
Arabis or Rock Cress.—What would the little garden, and 
especially the little rock garden, do without the flower laden tufts of 
white Rock Cress (Arabis albida), and still more showy purple Rock 
Cress (Aubrietia)? The double variety of the former is far better 
than the single, and some of the newer forms of Aubrietia 
(notably Leichtlini, Prichard’s Al, and Dr. Mules) are more richly 
