ANEMONE. 
purplish, and of one colour through- 
out; and A. hortensis, the sepals 
of which are pointed and purplish, | 
with a white centre. The tubers of | 
these fine kinds of Anemones, and 
their hybrids and varieties, are sold 
in the seed-shops by the hundred. | 
They resemble little bunches of small | 
black potatoes, which may be di- | 
vided, each portion producing a new 
plant, though it will prebably be too 
weak to flower the first year. As. 
A. coronéria, which is the parent of | 
the finest florists’ Anemones, comes | 
from Syria and Asia Minor, where | 
the ground is parched and dry in 
the hot season, the tubers should be | 
taken up in our moist climate every | 
summer, as soon as the flowers are | 
over and the leaves have turned 
yellow. ‘They should be laid on 
shelves formed of lathes, then be | 
kept in a warm, dry, airy situation, 
till October, when they should be | 
planted in beds prepared for their 
reception ; and where expense is not | 
an object, these beds should be dug 
out to the depth of about afoot. In 
the bottom of the pit thus formed, 
should be spread a layer, six or eight 
inches thick, of rotten cow-dung, if 
two years old so much the better; 
and on this, fresh loamy soil, so as | 
to raise the bed three or four inches 
above the level of the walks. The 
surface of the bed is then raked 
smooth, and drills cr furrows made | 
in it about five inches apart, and two | 
inches deep. A little sand should | 
be strewed along these drills, and 
the Anemone roots placed in them 
three or four inches apart. Care 
must be taken, in planting, to let | 
the tubers have the side which con- 
tains the bud uppermost; and it 
sometimes requires rather a close 
examination to discover which side 
this is, particularly if the dry fibrous | 
roots have been rubbed off, as the 
bud is not very conspicuous. All | 
the pieces accidentally broken off | 
should be preserved, as they will all | 
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grow, and form fresh tubers. The 
bed should be covered with bast mats 
stretched over hoops, or bundles of 
straw tied together, when danger 
is apprehended from frost ; bat this 
covering should be so contrived as 
to be easily removed when neces- 
sary, as the tubers are very liable 
to be injured, and even to become 
mouldy, bydamp. When the plants 
begin to grow, they should be fre- 
quently watered with rain-water, so 
as never to allow the fibrous roots to 
wither from drought ; and when the 
plants have done flowering, the mats 
_on hoops should be again stretched 
over the bed, and the plants kept 
quite dry, till their leaves become 
brown and wither, which will gener- 
ally be in about a month after they 
have done flowering. The tubers 
should then be taken up, and kept 
dry, till the return of the proper 
season for planting. Another mode 
of cultivating the garden Anemone, 
which is said to produce flowers of 
extraordinary size and beauty, is to 
form a bed about eighteen inches 
deep, and to place a layer of stones, 
brickbats, and other drainage, at 
the bottom, about six inches deep. 
The bed is then filled with fresh 
loam, and the tubers are planted in 
drills with sand, and covered as 
before directed; and then, over the 
whole is placed a layer of cow-dung, 
three or four inches thick. The 
beds which are planted in February, 
are watered with pond or rain water 
regularly once a day, if the weather 
be dry and not frosty, during the 
month of March, and twice a day 
afterwards till they are in flower ; but 
those that are planted in autumn, 
are seldom watered till the leaves 
appear above ground; and after- 
wards, till they flower. ‘The water- 
ing carries the manure in small 
quantities into the ground, and the 
young plants thus treated are said 
both to grow and to flower with 
extraordinary vigour. It must be 
