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and gentle showers. The young plants appear in 

 about ten weeks after they are sown, and they will 

 then require care to protect them from severe frosts, 

 which often injure them in the months of February 

 and March, if not screened by some fence from 

 the cutting winds of that season. In the following 

 autumn the beds should be carefully weeded, and 

 about a quarter of an inch of additional mould 

 should be placed over them. The plants generally 

 flower the second year, after which the roots may 

 be taken up as before directed. 



We shall close our history of the Anemone with 

 an anecdote related by the Abbe la Pluche, who 

 states that a Parisian florist, named Bachelier, 

 having procured some very beautiful species of 

 these plants from the East, kept them to himself 

 in the most miserly manner for ten years, during 

 which time neither friendship nor money could 

 obtain the least root of one of these rare plants from 

 this selfish florist. A witty member of the French 

 parliament, vexed to see one man hoard up for 

 himself what ought to be distributed to beautify 

 gardens in general, paid him a visit at his country- 

 house, where, in walking round the garden, and 

 observing the Anemonies were in seed, let his robe 

 fall upon them as if by accident ; by this device he 

 swept off a considerable number of the little 

 feathery seeds, which stuck fast to it. His servant, 



