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Crowfoot. It is quite charming for association with tufts of the 

 Apennine or the Wood Anemone, the Pasqueflower, any of 

 the varieties of Aiiemone Hepatica, the Aubrietias, and like 

 plants. It comes in among the naturalised group of British 

 plants, and grows in a semi-wild condition at Abbot's Langley 

 in Herts, near Worksop in Notts, and it is also reported to 

 occur in several other counties. It is one of the many beau- 

 tiful hardy plants that may be freely naturalised in our woods 

 and shrubberies. Flowers in the end of March and beginning 

 of April. Height, four to six inches. Propagated readily by 

 division,. and also by seeds. 



ANEMONE STELLATA. — Starry Windflower. 



This native of Southern Germany, France, Italy, and Greece, 

 if not so showy, is quite as beautiful, as the common garden 

 A. The star-like flowers, ruby, rosy purple, rosy, or whitish, 

 springing from the much dissected leaves, vary in a very 

 charming way, and usually have a large white eye at the 

 base, which contrasts agreeably with the gay or delicate color- 

 ation of the rest of the petals, and with the rich brownish 

 violet of the stamens and styles that occupy the centre of the 

 flower. It is not so vigorous in constitution as the Poppy 

 A., and requires a little more care than that does, but this 

 will only make it the more interesting to all who love variety 

 in their collections of hardy plants. It likes a sheltered yet 

 warm position, a hght, sandy, weU-drained soil, and seems to 

 make little or no progress on heavy clay soils. It is suitable for 

 association with the choicer kinds of Anemone on the rockwork, 

 the mixed border, and the choice spring garden, and shoiild 

 be grown in every garden where spring ilowers are appreciated. 

 Flowers in May. Height, ten inches. Propagated by diVrsion 

 or by seeds. = A. hortensis. 



ANEMONE SYt.Y^QUBJS.—Snowdrop Windflower. 



A FREE-GROWING and handsome species, partaking some- 

 what of the size and vigour of the alpine or Japanese Anemone, 

 and the neatness of habit and densely-blooming qualities of 

 the dwarfer kinds. It grows vigorously on almost any soil ; 

 the handsome, pure white flowers, as large as a crown piece, 

 being freely produced over a mass of fresh green leaves. A 



