24 THE WILD GARDEN. 
Few plants are more lovely in the wild garden than the 
White Japan Anemone. The idea of the wild garden first 
arose in the writer's mind as a home for a numerous class 
of coarse-growing plants, to which people begrudge room 
in their borders, such as the Golden Rods, Michaelinas Daisies, 
Compass plants, and a host of others, which are beautiful for 
a season only, or perhaps too rampant for what are called 
choice borders 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 kinds alluded to. It 
grows well in any good soil in copse or shrubbery, and 
increases rapidly. Partial shade seems to suit it; and in any 
case the effect of the large 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 variety), it is one of the loveliest spring flowers of any 
clime, and should be in every garden, in the borders, and 
scattered thinly here and there in woods and shrubberies, so 
that it may become “naturalised.” It is scarcely a British 
flower, being a native of the south of Europe; but having 
strayed into our wilds and plantations occasionally, it is 
now included in most books on British plants. The yellow 
A. ranunculoides, a doubtful native, found in one or two spots, 
but not really British, is well worth growing, thriving well 
on the chalk, and being very beautiful. 
The large Hepatica angulosa will grow almost as 
freely as Celandine among shrubs and in half-shady spots, 
and we all know how readily the old kinds grow on all 
garden soils of ordinary quality. There are about ten or 
