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JOURNAL  OF  HORTICULTURE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDENER. 
Single  Windflowers. 
The  Anemone  shares  with  the  Violet,  the  Primrose,  and  the  Daffodil 
the  fortune  of  being  the  best  liked  and  most  popularly  known  of  spring 
flowers.  Adown  in  the  shady  glades  of  Kent  and  Sussex,  or  far  rnrth 
confines  in  our  islands  is  in  the  kep:  pardons.  The  illustration  shows  a 
few  of  the  many  kinds  we  can  have.  Chief  among  them  is  A.  coronaria 
(the  largest  bloom  in  the  figure),  with  A.  pratensis,  showing  its  drooping 
bud  flower  on  the  right  ;  and  A.  stellaria  is  distinguishable  on  the 
left  hand  top  side  of  the  illustration.  The  lower  three,  from  left 
to  right,  are  A.  vernalis,  A.  apennina,  and  A.  vulgaris.  Each  of 
these  choice  six  is  fairly  well  known  ;  and  to  the  list,  of  course,  a 
ANEMONES. 
to  the  woods  of  “  bonnie  Sootland,”  the  delightful  virgin-white  flower 
form  of  the  Wood  Anemone  decks  and  spangles  many  acres  of 
otherwise  naked  surface  land.  Ere  the  cold  bleak  winds  of  March 
have  ceased  to  rusile  o’er  the  lea  or  through  the  coppice,  this  brave 
little  pioneer  of  the  glorious  springtide  has  reared  its  4  inches  of 
modest  structure  and  opened  its  precious  blooms  upon  a  comfortless 
survey.  This  is  why  everybody  with  a  true  homeland  heart  loves  the 
Wood  Anemone,  the  Primroses,  and  the  wild  or  Wood  Violets. 
But  we  have  other  Anemones,  or  Windflowers,  to  employ  the  fanciful 
name.  We  have  other  Anemones,  as  I  say,  from  other  lands,  whose 
great  many  others  could  be  added.  For  instance,  what  is  there 
finer  in  April  or  early  May  than  a  mass  of  Anemone  Pulsatilla  or 
A.  fulgens  in  the  borders  or  on  verdant  grass?  A.  sulphurea  is  a 
lovely  pale  yellow  variety  of  A.  alpina,  and  is  frequently  found  in 
rookeries.  Amongst  other  very  fine  Windflowers  are  A.  dichotoma, 
sibirica,  sylvanica,  montana,  baldensis,  alba,  and  blanda,  the  latter 
being  certainly  one  of  the  best.  The  six  that  are  figured  and  the 
others  referred  to  certainly  comprise  a  very  fine  selection  for  any 
ordinary  garden,  and  these  hardy  and  brilliant  little  flowers  will  be 
found,  as  a  rule,  easy  of  culture. — D. 
