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flower, almost unrivalled. It is admirably suited for culture as 

 a border plant, indispensable for the rockwork and spring gar- 

 den, and, when sufficiently abundant, may be tried amongst the 

 other Anemones scattered about in half wild places. Flowers 

 in April and May ; vivid scarlet. Height, one foot. Propagated 

 by division or by seeds. 



ANEMONE 'E.'E'S A'SIGK.— Common Hepatica. 



To add perfume to the Violet, paint the Lily, or gild the yellow 

 Crocus, would seem to be no more wasteful excess than to praise 

 this exquisite little flower. There is a cheerfulness and a 

 courage about it on warm sunny borders in spring which no 

 other flowers possess ; they are hardy everywhere, are not fas- 

 tidious as to soil, though they love a deep loam, and present a 

 charming diversity. The principal varieties are the single blue, 

 double blue, single white, single red, double red, single pink 

 (earned), single mauve purple {Barlowi), crimson isplendens), 

 and lilacina. Every variety of the common Hepatica is worthy 

 of care and culture. Is it possible to imagine a more beautiful 

 feature than we may produce by planting a mixed edging of the 

 various colours round say a bed of dwarf American plants, 

 occupying space that perhaps would otherwise be naked ? It is 

 but one of many ways in which we may tastefully use them. 

 The plant is a native of many hilly parts of Europe, usually 

 found in half shady positions, which will be found to suit it best 

 in a cultivated state also. It is readily increased by division or 

 by seeds, the double kinds by division only. 



ANEMONE TS:^mO-RO^K. — Wood A, 



This hardy beauty, which not only embellishes the woods of 

 these sea-girt isles in spring but also those of nearly all Europe 

 and Russian Asia, is so abundant in the British Isles that there 

 is little need to plead for its culture. It grows, or will grow, in 

 every wood or copse, dotting its handsome flowers all over the 

 ground, should other things not intetfere, and seeming to invite 

 us to plant other beautiful species of Anemone by its side. They 

 tell us in the books that it grows in or near woods ; and so it does 

 in profusion, but I once met with it blooming sweetly on some 

 of the very highest and almost inaccessible crags of Helvellyn, 

 just under some cliffs where a peregrine falcon had built her 



