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Journal of As,riculture. 



[9 Sept., 1907. 



special beds the tulxrs should be set out in rows from li- to 2 feet apart, 

 allowing from 9 to 12 inches in the lows for each plant. The same amount of 

 room is advisable between each plant when anemones are grown to produce 

 patches of bloom in beds or borders. Except in ver\- dry places, or when 

 planting is deferred till late in autumn, the spring blooming anemones will 

 not require any artificial watering during a normal season, and the only 

 cultivation required is to hoe between the rows or patches, and keep the 

 plants free from weeds. When the plants have finished blooming, and 

 the stems and leaves are withered, they should be lifted, and after being 

 dried, stored away until the planting season arrives. Plants allowed to 

 remain in the ground will flower early in winter, but fine weather is essential 

 for the production of blooms of good tvpe and quality. 



ANEMONE, JAPONICA. 



ANEMONE, CORONARIA TYPES. 



Anemones of spring blooming types are increased bv dividing the tubers, 

 and from seeds. After the plants are lifted and dried, thev should be 

 divided, before storing, into pieces, each containing one or more eyes or 

 buds. Seeds should be saved from the finest types and flowers, which 

 may be crossed fertilized with ease. The anemone produces seeds freely, 

 the seeds being clothed wdth a woolly covering and clinging together. They 

 should be separated before sowing, the easiest wav being to mix with them' 

 a quantity of dry sand or other gritty material, and rub them until they 

 separate. Thev mav be sown as soon as ripe, in small beds or boxes of 

 fine soil. The young plants soon appear, and should be kept free from 

 weeds and watered during dry weather, which will enable them to develop 

 into fair plants, many of which will flower during the same year. After 

 dying down they should be stored and replanted in season ; when the tubers 

 are very small, sifting from the soil is the common practice. If a good 

 selection of seed is made some fine varieties may be produced. A Mel- 

 bourne nur.seryman has made a specialtv of anemones of the St. Brigid 

 strain, and by careful crossing and rigid selection has produced varieties 

 much superior to any imported. His displays of cut flowers at the spring 

 shows, and in the beds at his nursery, were a revelation to gardeners and 

 the flower-loving public. Seeds and tubers of single and double forms of 

 a. fulgens, hortcnsis, and coronaria, are procurable at Melbourne seed 

 warehouses. 



