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biennia land annual species require the same kind of treat- 

 ment, diifering only in the mode of propagation, which in 

 the perennials is hj division, and. in the others by seeds. 

 A. carmata, hardy perennial, flowers yellow. A. lactea, hardy 

 perennial, flowers white. A. lanuginosa, frame perennial, 

 flowers rosy lilac. A. maxima, hardy annual, flowers white. 

 A. septentrionalis, hardy annual, flowers white. A. villosa, 

 hard}^ perennial, flowers pink. 



ANDROS^MUM. Tutsan. [Hypericaceae.] A woody- 

 stemmed herbaceous perennial, forming a pretty uuder-growth 

 in shrubberies, and growing readily under trees. Common 

 soil. Increased by dividing the tufts of the roots. A. 

 officinale, flowers yellow. 



ANEMONE. WiNDFLowER. [Ranunculaceae.] Sliowy 

 hardy herbaceous perennials, many having tuberous roots. 

 Soil, light rich loam. Propagated by offsets, or by division 

 of the plants, or by seeds, the latter being sown in July to 

 obtain blooming plants for the next year. A. Japonica, a fine 

 autumnal-blooming kind, makes a fine bed, and is propagated 

 by every little fragment of its roots, these being thickly set 

 ■with little buds or budlets. Some of the smaller-growing 

 spring kinds are very pretty if grown in large patches, or to 

 plant about in shrubberies : these propagate by separating 

 their tubers when in a dormant state. 



The florist's Anemone, A. coronaria, is imported in large 

 quantities from Holland, grows very dwarf, and comprises 

 many varieties of colour, in which blue, red, purple, white, 

 may be found in all their shades. The tubers should be 

 planted three inches deep, and six inches apart, in good loam 

 from a rich pasture ; and, if this be not at hand, let some 

 well-decomposed cowdung be mixed with the common earth 

 of the garden. The single and semi-double ones may be 

 raised with the greatest ease from seed, which, as it forms a 

 sort of cottony head or pod, if not w^atched as it approaches 

 ripeness, will be blown away. Piub the seeds with a little dry 

 sand, to separate them from each other ; sow them thinly on 

 a four-feet bed, neatly dug and levelled ; rake them in that 

 they may be well covered, and nothing more need be done 

 till they are large enough to handle ; then, wherever they 

 are too thick, thin them, leaving the bed w^ith plants at 



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