ANEMONE. 



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be frequently watered witli 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 gene- 

 rally 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 sea- 

 son 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, brick- 

 bats, and other drainage at thebottom, 

 about sis inches deep. The bed is 

 then filled with fresh loam, and the 

 tubersare 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 v.'atered with 

 pond or rain-water regularly once 

 a day, if the weather be dry and not 

 frosty, during the month of IMarch, 

 and twice a-day afterwards till 

 they are in flower ; but those that 

 are planted in the autumn are sel- 

 dom watered till the leaves appear 

 above ground ; and afterwards, till 

 they flower. The watering carries 

 the manure in small quantities into 

 the gi-ound, and the young plants 

 thus treated are said both to grow 

 and to flower with extraordinary 

 vigour. It must be observed, how- 

 ; ever, that there should be at least 

 j two inches of loamy soil between the 

 I cow-dung and the tubers ; as, if this 

 were not the case, the tubers would 

 be rotted. When seedling Anemones 

 are to be raised, the seed should be 

 divested of its pappus, by rubbing it 

 between the hands or through a sieve, 

 and sown in pots or boxes in August ; 



the young tubers should be taken up 



when the leaves wither the following 



summer, and replanted in autumn, 



I when they will flower the following 



spring. 



Angelica-tree — See Ara^lia. 



Angelo^nia. — Scropkuldrince. — 



i An evergreen perennial, with very 



I beautiful blue flowers, a native of 



South America. It should be kept 



in a cool airy part of the stove, or 



in a warm greenhouse ; and it 



should be allowed a season of rest, 



during which it should be kept 



' cool, and have scarcely any water. 



i The soil should be a very sandy 



j loam, mixed with peat earth, and 



it may be propagated, though v/ith 



difiiculty, by cuttings, struck in 



pure sand. 



Annuals. — Plants Avhich live 

 only one summer ; and wliich, Avith 

 reference to their culture in British 

 gardens, are either tender, half- 

 hardy, or hardy. Tender annuals are 

 kept during the whole period of theii- 

 growth under glass ; half-hardy an- 

 nuals are raised under glass, and 

 afterwards transplanted into the 

 open garden ; and hardy annuals are 

 sown in the open garden. 



Tender Annuals are sown in Fe- 

 bruary or March, in pots of light rich 

 earth, plunged in a hotbed ; and as 

 soon as the plants are come up, they 

 are transplanted into pots of the very 

 smallest size, one in each pot ; which 

 is called pricking them out. These 

 small pots are again set in the hotbed, 

 as near the glass as possible, and 

 slightly shaded during sunshine. lu 

 a week or two, when the roots have 

 made their appearance on the outside 

 of the ball of earth, which is known 

 by turning the plant out of the pot, 

 to examine the ball, and replacing it, 

 the plants are sliifted into pots one 

 size larger ; and this shifting is con- 

 tinued from time to time, always into 

 pots only a little larger than those 



