ANEMONE 



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highly tinted blossoms. The double 

 variety (flore pleno) is a pretty plant 

 with white blossoms which last longer 

 than those of the type. It is best grown 

 in clumps in rich loamy soil. 



There is also a single and double 

 variety rosea, with rose-coloured flowers, 

 and a double form called hracteata flore 

 pleno having white flowers surrounded by 

 a large involucre. 



OuUv/re dc. as above. Although the 

 Wood Anemone is far more effective in 

 its native state, it is a lovely plant for 

 the rockery or flower border in somewhat 

 shaded situations. 



A. obtusiloba. — A Himalayan species 

 with very hairy 3-lobed heart-shaped 

 leaves cut into broadly wedge-shaped, 

 deeply crenated segments. The flowers 

 have 5 cream-coloured obovate sepals, and 

 appear in June. 



Culture dc. as above. A warm and 

 sheltered position is required for this plant. 



A. palmata. — This is a distinct tuber- 

 ous-rooted plant about 6-8 in. high, from 

 the Mediterranean region. The roundish 

 heart-shaped leathery leaves are bluntly 

 3-5-lobed, slightly toothed and hairy. The 

 large, glossy, golden-yellow flowers with 

 10-12 oblong obtuse sepals appear in May 

 and June, opening in the sun. The 

 double variety, flore pleno, and the white 

 one, alba, are both pretty but very scarce. 



Culture and Propagation. — A. pal- 

 mata grows best in flat and dampish 

 places in deep turfy peat, or loam and 

 leaf soil, into which it roots deeply and 

 forms strong clumps. It is increased by 

 dividing the rootstocks or from seeds. 



A. patens. — A species of N. Europe, 

 with pinnate 3-parted toothed leaves, 

 which appear after the flowers. In June 

 the purplish or rarely yeUow flowers vrith 

 5-6 sepals appear, being almost directly 

 seated on the involucre. The variety 

 nuttalUana is a pretty border plant about 



1 ft. high from N. America. The flowers 

 are purple and cream-coloured with con- 

 nivent sepals hairy on the outside. 



Culture dc. as above. 



A. polyanthes. — -A Himalayan species 

 12-18 in. high, with round 5-7-lobed and 

 toothedleaves2-4in. across, borne on stout 

 stalks 4-10 in. long. The white flowers 1^- 



2 in. across appear in May and June and 

 are borne on branched umbels at the top of 

 a stout stalk, the base of the umbel having 



a leafy involucre of broadly wedge-shaped 

 lobed and toothed bracts or stalkless leaves. 

 Culture dc. as above. This plant is 

 not yet well known and is rather tender. 

 It requires to be grown in warm sheltered 

 spots and may be increased by careful 

 division in spring as growth is about to 

 commence. 



A. pratensis [Pulsatilla pratensis). — 

 This N. Eiu-opean species is closely 

 related to the Pasque Flower {A. Pulsa- 

 tilla), and differs chiefly in having smaller 

 flowers with narrower and more acute 

 sepals connivent at the base, and reflexed 

 at the tips. It is about 6-12 in. high, 

 with many-parted linear-lobed leaves, 

 and dark purple drooping flowers which 

 appear in May. 



Culture dc, as above. 



A. Pulsatilla (Pulsatilla vulgaris). — 

 The Pasque Flower is a native of our 

 chalky dovims and limestone pastures, 

 and also distributed throughout Europe 

 to N. Asia. It grows from 3 to 12 in. high. 

 The leaves, which spring from a stout 

 woody rootstock, and develop after flow- 

 ering, are thrice pinnatifid, with linear 

 segments, those of the involucre being 

 sessile and cut to the base into long linear 

 portions. The dull purple flowers, each 

 about 1^ in. across, appear in May and 

 June, having 6 erect silky sepals, outer 

 stamens reduced to glands, and fruits 

 with long feathery tails. There are 

 several varieties, among which may be 

 mentioned dahurica, very dwarf, with 

 very hairy oblong sepals ; Ulacima, with 

 lilac flowers ; and rubra, a red-flowered 

 form with blunter sepals. 



Culture a/nd Propagation. — The 

 Pasque Flower delights in deep, light and 

 well-drained soil, forming strong clumps, 

 and flowering freely, either in rockeries 

 or the edges of borders. Increased by 

 seeds or division. 



A. ranunculoides (Yellow Wood Ane- 

 mone). — A tuberous-rooted species of S. 

 Europe, growing 4-6 in. high; with 3-5- 

 parted leaves having deeply toothed some- 

 what trifid segments. The clear golden- 

 yellow flowers, with 5 or 6 elliptic sepals, 

 appear in March either singly or in pairs. 

 There is a Pyrenean variety with purple 

 flowers, and one named pallida with sul- 

 phur-coloured ones. 



Culture dc. as above. This charming 

 little plant is occasionally found natu- 

 ralised in English woods, and likes the 



