DWARF-GROWING PLANTS 



down the face of a rock. A. sarmentosa is another pretty- 

 species with bright rose flowers suitable for a like posi- 

 tion. They often do well in a compost of gritty loam 

 in a sunny exposure, especially if protected by a rock 

 from the winter rains. 



Anemone. — A race that provides some of our loveliest 

 spring flowers. The charming Wood Anemone of our 

 copse-banks is well known to all, and there are other 

 species equally fitted to naturalisation. Of these the 

 best is undoubtedly the bright blue A. apennina, which 

 rapidly increases when planted in the woods, and requires 

 no attention. The blue Greek Anemone, A. blanda, is 

 an earlier bloomer, but should be planted on banks 

 where the grass does not grow strongly. One of the 

 most delightful of all the family is A. Robinsoniana, 

 a variety of the Wood Anemone, but having larger 

 flowers of a silvery blue tint. Growing on a mossy 

 bank at the foot of an old elm, it makes one of the 

 prettiest pictures imaginable. A. sylvestris, the Snow- 

 drop Anemone, grows to a height of a foot or more 

 and bears drooping white flowers. It thrives best in a 

 moist porous soil in a shady site. A. Pulsatilla, the 

 Pasque Flower, a native of England, grows naturally on 

 chalky downs, and the bright yellow A. ranunculoides is 

 also partial to chalk. A. fulgens, the brilliant scarlet 

 Mediterranean Anemone, often proves difficult to estab- 

 lish in the border in some localities, while flowering 

 freely year after year in others. It sometimes becomes 

 naturalised in the grass in England, and has flowered 

 for eight years in a southern orchard. The Hepaticas, 

 also Anemones, are better suited by the shade of a wood 

 of deciduous trees than by the open border, of these 

 there are blue, red and white as well as doubles. The 

 great Hepatica, A. angulosa, with larger pale blue flowers 

 is also very beautiful. 



Arabis. — A. albida is one of the commonest rock plants, 



