EXAMPLE FROM GLOBE FLOWER ORDER. 25 
twelve varieties of the common Hepatica (Anemone Hepatica) 
grown in British nurseries and gardens, and all the colours 
of the species should be represented in every collection of 
spring flowers. 
There are many of the Ranunculi, not natives of Britain, 
which would grow as freely as our native kinds. Many will 
doubtless remember with pleasure the pretty button-like 
white flowers of the Fair Maids of France (Ranunculus 
aconitifolius fl. pl.), a frequent ornament of the old mixed 
border. This, and the wild form from which it comes—a 
frequent plant in alpine meadows—may also be enjoyed in 
our wild garden. Quite distinct from all these, and of chastest 
beauty when well grown, is R. amplexicaulis, with flowers of 
pure white, and simple leaves of a dark glaucous green and 
flowing graceful outline; a hardy and charming plant on 
almost any soil. This is one of the elegant exotic forms of a 
family well represented in the golden type in our meadows, 
and therefore it is welcome as giving us a strange form 
Such a plant deserves that pains be taken to establish it in 
good soil, in spots where a rank vegetation may not weaken 
or destroy it. 
Of the Globe Flowers (Trollius), there are various kinds 
apart from our own, all rich in colour, fragrant, and hardy 
in a remarkable degree. These are among the noblest wild- 
garden plants—quite hardy, free of growth in the heaviest of 
soil and wettest of climates, affording a lovely type of early 
summer flower-life, and one distinct from any usually seen 
in our fields or gardens; for these handsome Globe flowers 
are among the many flowers that for years have found no 
place in the garden proper. They are lovely in groups or 
