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THE GARDENERS' MAGAZINE. 



Mahch 16, 1912. 



JAPANESE ANEMONES. 



The varieties of Anemone japonica have 

 been so greatly increased within the past 

 ten or twelve years that they form a group 

 of considerable importance among the 

 hardy herbaceous plants, and one of much 

 value for contributing to the charm and 

 interest of the flower garden during the 

 latter part of the summer season. They 

 are equally attractive arranged in lawn 

 groups and in bold masses in the mixed 

 border, the latter being the best p^ace for 

 them when the garden is of limited dimen- 

 sions.. They are especially desirable in the 

 flower garden of the country house, as they 

 are usually at their best when the owners 

 turn from the gaieties of town life to the 

 quiet pleasures that the country is so well 

 able to afford, and usually entertain their 

 friends. The Japanese anemones ;;re also 



white flowers, and is useful both for its 

 effectiveness in the garden and the adapt- 

 ability of the flowers to various floral ar- 

 rangement in a cut state. 



The most beautiful of the varieties with 

 flowers other than white are the type 

 which has been already mentioned. Elegan- 

 tissima, semi-double, light pink ; Mont 

 Rose, dwarf in growth, and bearing large 

 semi^louble rose-pink flowers ; Prince 

 Heinrlch, a distinct variety, with semi- 

 double crimson flowers ; and Queen Char- 

 lotte, a beautiful variety, the flowers large^ 

 semi-double, and of a soft pink hue. 



All the Japanese anemones here men- 

 tioned are equally suitable for the forma- 

 tion of lawn groups and for association 

 with other hardy perennials in the mixed 

 border. When grown in beds it is an ad- 

 vantage to associate with them one of the 

 lilies that bloom early in the summer to 



SPRING IN THE SHADY 



GARDEN. 



As though to compensate for a lack of 

 summer splendour there are innumerable 

 ways in which spring is to be made beauti- 

 ful in the shady portions of the garden 

 and one especially noteworthy fact is the 

 ease with which plants can be lifted fro 

 the open ground, and placed in shado^red 

 beds and borders when about to bloom 

 This applies to almost all bulbous plants*' 

 if we take up hyacinths, tulips, narcissi 

 daffodils, scillas of most species, anemones 

 chionodoxa, and crocuses, with a sufficient 



of unbroken soil on the same 

 spade, and drop them into specially 

 prepared holes, they will not suffer 

 the slightest check, even if the buds 

 are colouring. Wallflowers that are 

 not veterans may be moved from place to 



depth 



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A FINELY-FLOWERED GROUP OF AXEMOXE JAPONICA ALBA 



has the advantage of 



most useful for the supply of cut bloom 

 at a season when really choice flowers are 

 none too plentiful. 



The typical Japanese anemone (A. ji'po- 

 nica) possesses much beauty, although 

 hardly equal in richness of colour to some 

 of the newer rose-coloured forms. It 



being vigorous in 

 growth and free in blooming ; the colour 

 of the flowers may be best described as pale 



The pure white variety ^ known us 

 A. japonica alba, is so highly meritorious 

 that it should be grown wherever the 

 charms of the Japanese anemones are fully 

 appreciated. It has a bold habit, and pro- 

 duces its large salver-shaped pure white 

 flowers with remarkable free<lom. The re- 

 cently introduced Lady Ardilaun also has 



white single flowers . and 



prolong the attractiveness of the group. 

 Lilium Hansoni, one of the finest of the 

 free-growing lilies, is especially suitable for 

 associating with these anemones, for it car- 



rose 



pure white single 



strongly recom mende<I . 

 generally known, has 



can be 

 Whirlwind, now 

 large semi-double 



ries its flowers well above the foliage of 

 the anemones, and when they have lost 

 their beauty the stems can l)e cut back 

 to a level with the foliage of the latter. 

 Moderate-sized groups present in the bor- 

 ders the most attractive appearance. 



These anemones will thrive in any good 

 garden soil to which a liberal addition of 

 manure has been made. Late in the 

 autumn is perhaps the best time to plant, 

 but if pot plants are obtained they can 

 be planted now with the full assurance of 

 success. The chief point in the cultiva- 

 tion of these flowers is to allow them to 

 remain undisturbed for as long a period 



place in the same manner, and a ^^^^ 

 the bright gold, or a group of the vivid red. 

 will quite transform a cold, d|-eary-looking 



border into a gay one. 



A simple expedient for having a tine 

 spring show in shade is to cultivate numbers 



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of bulbous and other spring plants in oo- 

 long, round, or square tubs or boxes ; ttie 

 can be planted precisely as though tne 

 were beds, and kept sunk in sunny g^*^^^^ 

 all winter, mulcluMi over with three or tou 

 inches of dry stable manure. When 

 plants are attractive by reason ^'f. ^^^^R^^ 

 and within some weeks of flower. ng, 

 receptacles should be disinterred and sun 

 in the garden, of shade. When a l^^^^-f ^JJ^ 

 and loam mulch, or one of cocoanut^nor^ 



refuse, is laid over the soil, there ^'^j^^ 

 nothing to reveal the fact that the pian^ 



leuiaui uiiuic»tui uttu lui us it^"^ u pt^i j<hi noxning to reveal tne laci, xniit i/"-^ r t 

 as they continue to make a strong growth have not come to maturity there. P'^^^ 



1 1 I t 1 1 ii« . 1 1 o^nio cihprica> 



and bloom freely. 



brown wallflowers.carpeted by Scilla sibern 



