14° ALPINE FLOWERS. Part II. 



nest, and very far away from either wood or copse. There are 

 double varieties, and the colour of the flower is occasionally 

 lilac, or reddish, or purplish. I have a single sky-blue variety, 

 which has flowered densely in a fully exposed position, and pro- 

 duced the most exquisite cushions of coerulean blue imaginable. 

 One day it may become a popular rock-plant. Flowers from 

 March to May ; white, and reddish outside. . Height, six inches. 

 Propagated by division. 



ANEMONE PALMATA. — Cyclamen-leaved A. 



A VERY distinct kind, with leathery, kidney-shaped, sUghtly 

 lobed leaves and large handsome flowers, of a glossy golden 

 yellow, only opening to meet the sun. A native of North Africa, 

 Spain, and other places on the shores of the Mediterranean, this 

 charming flower requires and deserves a little more attention 

 than most of its cultivated sisters. It is especially a rockwork 

 gem, and should be planted thereon in deep turfy peat or hght 

 fibrous loam with leaf-mould. It should not be placed in posi- 

 tions on the face of rocks suited for Saxifrages and many other 

 plants that are content with mere crevices, and drape the face of 

 the rocks with the shghtest encouragement, but rather on level 

 spots, where it could root deeply and spread into firm tufts. 

 Plants of very rapid growth or rambling habit should not be 

 placed near it, as they might overrun and injure it. There is a 

 double variety, A. palmata fl.pl., and a white one, A.palmata 

 alba, both now rare. Flowers in May and June ; six to eight 

 inches high, and is propagated by division or seeds. 



ANEMONE PAVONINA.— /"^awf^ Windflower. 



This kind is very rarely seen in our gardens ; though well 

 worthy of being largely grown. The flowers are smaller 

 than those of the common garden Anemone, but usually 

 very double, from the great number of narrow pointed petals 

 filling up the centre of each. These being of a gorgeous 

 cinnamon-red, the effect is peculiarly rich when the flower 

 opens well on fine days. Sometimes the central petals are green. 

 The plant is a native of the South of Europe, should have a 

 light warm well-drained soil, and is a charming ornament of 

 the rockwork or border. In France I have seen it used with 

 good effect as an edging plant for beds of spring and early 



