Plate 247 . 
HEPATICA ANGULOSA. 
When the long dreary winter months are passing away, and 
we are anxiously looking out for signs of returning spring, 
there are no dowers more readily welcomed than the Hepa- 
tica,—none more readily gathered as proofs that the winter is 
passing away,—and therefore any addition to them of a really 
good character will he at once recognized as a desideratum. 
And this is, we believe, the character of Hepatica angulosa , 
lately brought before the Floral Committee of the Royal Hor¬ 
ticultural Society by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of York. 
There is another reason that makes any addition to our 
spring-flowering plants of great importance, and that is, the 
greater attention that is now being given to spring gardening. 
Since the new bedding-out system has driven out of the held 
the old mixed herbaceous borders, it has been felt to be a dis¬ 
grace to our English gardeners and gardening that for six 
months of the year the parterres should be as bare as a ploughed 
field, and various plans have been adopted for the purpose of 
remedying the defect. By no person has the reproach been 
more felt and the remedy been better applied than by Mr. 
Fleming, of Cleveden, and his experiences in spring gardening 
have been brought before the world, and led to many attempts 
at following in his steps. Clumps of this fine Hepatica will be 
by-and-by very useful in adding to the effect. 
Hepatica angulosa was introduced by Messrs. Backhouse and 
Son, of York, and is said by them to be a native of North 
America and Hungary, but believed to be scarce in Europe. It 
is thus described in the Royal Florticultural Society’s Pro¬ 
ceedings : —“ The leaves and flowers are about twice the size of 
the common Hepatica triloba : the former three inches broad, 
