It was of very light wood, almost yellow in tint; it looked like rough vine trellises with vines clambering over them; its base was surrounded by a thick bed of purple anemones; the smaller shelf below was also filled with purple anemones, and each of the golden lilies held all the purple anemones it couldnot a shade of any other color but the purple and goldand rising above them the odd vine trellises in the pale yellow wood.

The most remarkable instance of these natural affinities was in the case of L.T. and his double anemones.

Sometimes they have numbers of eggs; at other times their little ones come straight into the world as very tiny Anemones.

In returning, we halted near the village of Itsatsou, to gather some of the lovely scarlet anemones

In returning, we halted near the village of Itsatsou, to gather some of the lovely scarlet anemones

Hard by, clinging to rocks, nods the red columbine; Close hid, under the leaves, nestle anemones, White-robed, airy and frail, tender and delicate.

Call the crow-foot and the crocus, Call the pale anemone, Call the violet and the daisy, Clothed with careful modesty; Seek the low and humble blossoms, Of their beauties unaware, Let the dandelion and fennel, Show their shining yellow hair.

There was the less formal phlox of a pinkish purple; deer's-tongue, white and yellow; frail anemones, both pink and white; small but stately violets, and the wake-robin with its wine-red centre among long green leaves.

"Well, Verny," he said, "have you been getting those pretty sea-anemones?

It was a rue-leaved anemone (A. thalictraides); and, if you will believe it, each one of the three white flowers was double, not merely with that multiplicity of petals in the disk which is common with this species, but technically and horticulturally double, like the double-flowering almond or cherry,the most exquisitely delicate little petals, seeming like lace-work.

The Actinia mesembryanthemum is the common smooth anemone, abounding on the coast, and often to be found attached to stones on the beach.

Youth, like a thin anemone, displays His silken leaf, and in a morn decays.

I carry the news seaward of the first song of the thrush after the furious retreat of winter northward, and the first timid anemone learns from me that she is safe and that spring has truly come.

Judge of my surprise, when, on opening his next letter, out dropped, from those folds of metropolitan paper, a veritable double anemone.

In some places along our coast the floor of the sea is like a flower garden, gay with thousands of coloured Anemones.

The ground, frozen solid all the year, thaws out for a foot or two on the surface during the warm months, and here and there were scattered wild flowers; spring beauties, purple primroses, yellow anemone, and saxifrages bloomed in beauty, and wild honey-bees, gay bumblebees, and fat mosquitoes buzzed and hummed everywhere.

The coy anemone that ne'er discloses Her lips until they're blown on by the wind Plants open out their leaves to breathe the air just as eagerly as they throw down their roots to suck up the moisture of the earth.

What pleasant memories, how many things Rose up again before me, as I lay Half-stretched among the crushed anemones, And watched them, till a far off jutting ledge Precluded sight, still listening till mine ears Caught the last vanishing murmur of their talk.

Just as the exquisite sea-anemones and all the graceful ocean-flowers die out at some fathoms below the surface, the elegances and suavities of life die out one by one as we sink through the social scale.

He was leaning his arms over the balustrade, and the great red peonies and loose anemones were staring up at him so that he could see down into their central folds; but what is April, and what is a half-holiday, and what indeed is life itself when one has lost perhaps the most excellent top that boy ever spun, and the loudest hummer?