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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



flowered blue varied species. Anemone Pulsatilla, Euro- 

 pean pasque-flower, has finely cut leaves and solitary dark 



shaggy, purple flowers. 

 Anemone sylvestris, snow- 

 drop wind - flower, has 

 pure white flowers, two 

 inches across, and blooms 

 in April and May, and 

 sometimes all summer. 

 It is only a foot high 

 and is charming. All 

 these species grow about 

 eight to ten inches high. 

 Alyssum saxatile (golden 

 tuft), a close relative of 

 rock-candy tuft, comes 

 very early in spring, has 

 curious gray-green leaves and quantities of bright yellow 

 flowers. It comes from the mountains of Southern Europe, 

 and grows about a foot high. Its low compact masses are 

 excellent for rock-woi-k. Adonis vernaJis (spring adonis) 

 is a showy early spring-flowering plant with yellow flowere 

 two or three inches across and finely cut leaves. It comes 

 from Europe, and grows from ten to twelve inches high. 



There is a class of herbaceous plants that grow in close, 

 low tufts that should be used throughout a mass of such 

 plants as a kind of carpet. Dwarf phlox and alyssum are 

 such plants, and performing this office in a still more marked 

 degree, comes Areimria verna. It is the spring sandwort, 

 a low tufted plant, two to four inches high, with numerous 



EUROPEAN PASQUE-FLOWER. 



(anemone PULSATILLA.) 



