JAPANESE ANEMONE. 15 



by the celebrated botanist it has been our fortune (or 

 misfortune) to have realised, for a few years since, when 

 botanising in North Wales with Mr. Alfred Slocombe, we 

 met with Anemone Japonica in a garden at Conway in 

 a completely double state. We must add that, having 

 lost their central cluster of golden stamens, the double 

 flowers were less beautiful than the single or semi-double 

 examples common to. our gardens. 



The red form, then, was the one originally introduced. 

 But the vine-leaved anemone, an older plant, served well 

 as a complement to it, and but for an accident might by 

 this time have acquired popularity as its proper companion 

 in the hardy garden. The accident was the appearance in 

 the garden of M. Jobert, at Verdun-sur-Meuse, as the pro- 

 duet of the red-flowered anemone, of this lovely white 

 form, which, in, commemoration of its origin, was named 

 Honorine Jobert. It is now, we hope, made evident to 

 the reader that the name last cited is admissible for 

 literary purposes, while the name often adopted for our 

 subject, Anemone vitifolia, is inadmissible, because it repre- 

 sents the Nepal, and not the Japanese, form of the anemone. 

 We have thus justified our head-line, this " autumnal 

 white lily," as it has been playfully designated, being the 

 white-flowering, and probably primal, form of Anemone 

 Japonica, which " righted itself " by sporting from the red 

 form in M. Jobert's garden. 



The reader will not ask about the sowing of the seeds, 

 because the story tells of the rarity of their ripening in 

 this country, which Sir William Hooker unwisely attri- 

 buted to the tendency of the red form to doubling. It 

 must be understood that to obtain seeds is not a matter of 

 routine, and for all ordinary purposes it may be said that 



