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leaves appear, deeply cut and clothed 

 with silky hairs, and are green at first, 

 with a reddish tinge at maturity ; these 

 leaves should remain as a shelter to the 

 crown throughout the following winter, 

 and where they keep in good condition 

 the plants never fail to do well. 



Though full flowers in the other 



colours 



ha 



ve 



The New 

 Double-White. 



>ng been known, if the 

 double-white kind ever 

 existed in gardens — a 

 matter of much dispute 

 — it had certainly disappeared until a 

 single wild plant was found bya lad when 

 roaming in the forests of the Hartz 

 Mountains, and that plant, carefully in- 

 creased, has given us the long-desired 

 double-white Hepatica. It is of good 

 growth, free and vigorous, bearing its 

 pale rosettes, which are as large as the 

 robust double-red, well above the foli- 

 age, and when more common is likely 

 to be of value for cut-work of all sorts. 

 Grown as large tufts in pans, like those 

 shown by Miss Willmott before the 

 Royal Horticultural Society, its beauty 

 of form and purity of colour is undenia- 

 ble. Increased solely by division, it will 

 be a scarce plant for some time to come. 



The older forms of these woodland 

 Anemones are so well known as to re- 

 quire only a rapid sum- 

 oider Kinds, mary. All the garden 

 Hepaticas belong to 

 two species, though wild and garden 

 forms are innumerable. 



The Great Hepatica [Anemone angulosa) . 

 — A robust plant from the east of Europe, 

 growingfrom 8 to 1 2 inches high, and bearing 

 flowers of sky-blue or mauve colour, 2 inches 

 or more across. It is the earliest to flower, open- 

 ing in February and beautiful when grown in 



rich soil in a peat border or rock garden. It 

 spreads by long underground stems, bearing 

 finely-cut leaves which are woolly in some 

 varieties. Though less sensitive to smoke than 

 the common Hepatica, it is not at all free in 

 some gardens, but richly beautiful where it 

 succeeds. It may be raised from seed, but there 

 are fewer forms than with the smaller kind. 

 They include atro-ccerulea, with a larger flower 

 of deep purple-blue and of pleasing irregular 

 shape; a semi-double pale lilac kind, also very 

 pretty ; an early star-like form with very narrow 

 pale petals; one or twoforms inclining to rose- 

 colour; and a dark flower produced with leaves 

 silvery from their long silky hairs. Syn. A. 

 transsilvanica of Beck. 



The Common Hepatica {Anemone hepatica 

 triloba). — A plant of 4 to 9 inches, with many 

 flowersmuch smaller than in angulosa. Rough- 

 ly classed as to colour and form of flower as 

 follows: — 



Single Blue. — The common form vary- 

 ing in tone from pale lavender to a fine shade 

 of sky-blue [coeruled), and to a rich deep blue 

 of great brilliance [splendens). Easy to grow 

 and early in flower. 



Double Blue. — A scarce form, variable 

 and very fine at its best, but delicate and slow 

 of increase. It is best divided in September 

 and wintered in frames, indeed in many gardens 

 it is always grown in pots. It flowers after 

 other kinds in spring and sometimes bears a 

 few pale flowers in the autumn, which have at 

 times passed for blooms of a double-white kind. 

 Its leaves are more rounded than in other kinds 

 and more richly marbled. Grown in several 

 forms, of which the best is Royal Blue. 



Single Pink. — A beautiful little plant, fine 

 in shape and colour but less robust than the full- 

 flowered plant, and delicate in many gardens. 

 Fine colour shades exist, from a pearly rose- 

 grey to bright pink. 



Double Pink. — A kind of free robust 

 growth, with a good constitution and fine 

 effect. Its tiny rosettes, shading from pale rose 

 to deep pink, come very early and last long in 

 beauty. One of the best hardy spring flowers. 



Single White. — A charming flower of 

 large size, pure white or flushed with rose in- 

 side and upon the outside of the petals. The 

 anthers are many and brightly coloured, taking 



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