May 9, 1896. 
JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
397 
DICKSONS’ 
IRISH ROSES. 
ALEX. DICKSON & SONS 
Have pleasure in announcing for distribution in May a further 
series of their 
CELEBRATED PEDIGREE RDSES, 
HELEN KELLEE (H.P.), Rosy Cerise, superb .. 10/6 each 
MAVOTJENEEN (H.P.), Silvery Flesh, first rate 10,6 „ 
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ALSO 
The Best of the NEW FRENCH & BRITISH ROSES. 
Descriptive Catalogue Post Free on application, 
NEW (H.T.) ROSE 
BELLE SIEBRECHT (Mrs. W. J, Grant). 
Raised by Alex. Dickson & Sons, distributed by Siebbecht 
and Wadley, New York. 
The most valuable introduction of the past ten years. This 
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PLANTS IN POTS IN MAY, 10/6 EACH. 
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FLORISTS’ FLOWERS 
AND 
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GEO. NEIGHBOUR & SONS’ 
THURSDAY, MAT 9, 1895. 
HARDY FLOWER NOTES. 
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No. 776.—VoL. XXX., TniBD Series, 
S PRING has come with reluctant feet, and 
many flowers seem loth to expose their 
loYeliness to the cruel mercies of the cold, harsh 
air. Still Nature compels them to make an 
effort to fulfil their destiny, and with manifest 
unwillingness many unfold their charms. 
The Daffodil—the universal favourite—waves 
to and fro in unison with the music of the 
winds. Snowy Arabis makes sheets of white 
on the rockeries and borders. Alyssums show a 
glimmer of yellow which quickly develops into 
masses of brilliant gold. The early Tulips have 
come into bloom, and given us a foretaste of 
the delights the vivid colours of the later ones 
will yield. The “fair and frail Anemone,” as 
Shelley calls it, entrances us with its beauty, 
and Primroses and Polyanthuses seem to vie 
with other plants in yielding us pleasure. This 
running commentary, as it might well be called, 
could be continued long enough, but we must 
pass from the general to the particular, and 
single out some plants for more detailed notice. 
Very charming are these flowers, and in their 
fashioning Nature has not forgotten to give us 
varieties which cannot be mistaken for the 
“ snow that has stayed too long,” inasmuch as 
they have flowers of other colours. These 
coloured varieties of the Wood Anemone do 
not bedeck themselves with the brilliant hues 
of some of their congeners, such as Anemone 
coronaria or A. pulsatilla, but they have a 
softness of colour which appeals to all who 
love chaste shades in flowers. 
We have the pretty variety of Anemone 
nemorosa named rosea, the equally attractive 
bluish variety called coerulea, which is again 
surpassed by the fine one known as coerulescens, 
and I have now the good fortune to possess 
one named purpurea, which was, I understand, 
raised by Mr. James Allen, to whom I am 
indebted for it. 1 am not sure that I should 
call it purple, although in gardening that word 
has to do duty for many tints. Still, the plant 
is a pretty one, and will be prized by those who 
seek to add to their collections of plants those 
which are “ new and rare.” 
Among the plants which the mention of the 
Wood Anemone suggests to one’s thoughts is a 
No. 2432 .—VOL. XCII., Old Sebiks. 
