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riialictriDiis or “meadow rues’’ are chiefly remark- 
able for their light green, elegantly cut foliage, dio- 
AXI^MONE NEMOKOSA. 
cum, roseum and anemonoides fl. pi. are among those- 
early to flower. 
Anoiioiic Hcpatica in several colors may be col- 
lected from the woods and colonized in the shade oi 
such trees and shrubs as belong to this group. Other 
spring flowering anemones are angulosa, alpina, 
blanda, sulphurea, ranunculoides, nemorosa, n. Rob- 
insoniana, pulsatilla and sylvestris. South and west- 
ward patens Nuttalliana, the Pasque flower is native 
and one of the earliest purplish or whitish flowers. 
Adonis 7rnialis is a favorite spring flower, bright 
as gold above finely cut leaves. 
Ranitnculns acris fl. pi. is a dou!)le buttercup 
which may generally be depended upon to fill a bed 
and hold its own. 
Calfha palnsfris. the “marsh marigolds.’’ so-called, 
may be had in Iwth single and double forms, and do 
well in moist, partly shady places. Their bright gold- 
en flowers appear quite early. 
Eranthis hycnialis is another of this yellow early 
flowering group which will do well in partial shade. 
Acjiiilcgios or “columbines’’ are a fine genus, well 
represented bv the native early flowering Canadensis, 
but a large number of garden forms have been 
produced l)v hybridization with the European vulgar- 
is. These embrace a wide range of color and are 
well worth selecting in approved forms to propagate 
quantity for good sized beds. They are extreme- 
ly hardy and satisfactory. 
XanthorrliEa apiifolia is a small cut leaved shrub 
with drooping racemes of purplish flowers. It ma\' 
be used for margins, or planted in small beds in 
the grass. 
Pacouia tennifolia in both single and double forms 
is the earliest to flower of those commonly seen in 
gardens. 
Magnolias are always a feature in the spring gar- 
dens of northern warm temperate regions. M. stel- 
lata and ]\I. conspicua are so early to flower, indeed, 
that they frequently get caught by a late frost. If 
they escape once in three years, however, they are 
so superb a sight that no one should neglect to pro- 
vide them who can. M. conspicua. and Al. Kobus, which 
is looser and poorer in flower, become in time trees 
of thirty feet high. The finest stellata I have as yet 
seen was a magnificently developed shrub of twelve 
to fourteen feet high and as much through. 
Later flowering magnolias of the conspicua type 
are supposed to be hybrids between conspicua and 
obovata, the shrubby purple flowered kind. Soul- 
angeana, Candollii, and several others are of these 
later flowered various!}’ purple tinged forms with AI. 
Lennei, the finest and latest of all. A friend of mine 
has sown seed of Lennei for many years, and of all 
those which have so far bloomed no two have been 
alike ; some were of a much deeper purple than any 
known magnolia, while others were much lighter 
than anv of the Soulangeana forms but not pure 
white. The foliage varied too, some being golden or 
ApUILEC.IA -f- VARS. 
vellowish. The habit, however, seems to be bushy 
rather than tree like. The larger leaved Japanese 
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