22 THE WILD GARDEN. 
as a creeper over old stumps, trellising, or the like. Cle- 
matis campaniflora, with flowers like a campanula, and of a 
pale purplish hue, and the beautiful white Clematis montana 
grandiflora, a native of Nepaul, are almost equally beautiful, 
and many others of the family are worthy of a place, rambling 
over old trees, bushes, hedgerows, or tang- 
ling over banks. These single wild species 
of Clematis are more graceful than the 
large Hybrids now common; they are 
very hardy and free. In mild and sea- 
shore districts a beautiful kind, common 
in Algeria, and in the islands on and the 
shores of the Mediterranean (Clematis 
cirrhosa), will be found most valuable— 
being nearly evergreen, and flowering very 
early in spring—even in winter in the 
South of England. 
Next in this order we come to the 
Wind Flowers, or Anemones, and here 
we must pause to select, for more beauti- 
The Mountain Clematis ful flowers do not adorn this world of 
(C. montana), 
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mown? If so, the beautiful downy white and vellow 
flowers. Have we a bit of rich grass not 
Anemones of the Alps (A. alpina and A. sulphurea) may be 
grown there. Any sunny bushy bank or southern slope 
_ which we wish to embellish with vernal beauty? Then 
select Anemone blanda, a small but lovely blue kind; place 
it in open bare spots to begin with, as it is very dwarf, and 
it will at Christmas, and from that time onward through 
the spring, open its large flowers of the deepest sky blue. 
