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be in possession of the other species of this genus, we should be glad to be 

 informed. 



For the present, we will conclude our list of Hardy Lilyworts with a reference 

 to the highly ornamental gerius Tritoma. Perhaps, after the Lilies and Agapanthus, 

 these are the most ornamental of any of the plants we have named. There are 

 four species in cultivation : Burchellii, media, pumila, and JJvaria. The two last 

 are the hardiest, as they flower during the latter part of the summer ; media 

 produces its blossoms at a later period, and its activity during the cold season 

 renders it, therefore, more susceptible of injury from frost. They will all be safer 

 with a little protection, such as that afforded by a layer of fern leaves, or cut furze ; 

 media should have a few evergreen branches placed round it. Their flowers, 

 produced in a long spike, are very numerous, and of a bright orange tint. 



THE ANEMONE. 



The Order Ranuncidactce furnishes us with two of the most valuable of the plants 

 usually denominated Florist's flowers — we allude to the Anemone and the Eanunculus. 

 The latter has many admirers, and if its beauty alone be considered, it equals, and 

 perhaps surpasses, its rival ; but for general utility, and adaptation to the purposes 

 of the amateur, we think it is much its inferior. 



By judicious successional planting, the Anemone may be had in flower at least 

 six months of the year ; it is perfectly hardy, less liable to the attacks of the wire- 

 worm, and the varieties are capable of being perpetuated by division, without 

 degeneration, for a long period ; it may, in fact, be cultivated successfully by the 

 veriest tyro, and of the Eanunculus this can hardly be affirmed. 



There are very few gardens in which the double scarlet varieties are not grown ; 

 but the crimson, blue, rose, white, and variegated varieties, although equally 

 beautiful, and lending, by their contrast, an additional charm to the 'scarlets,' are 

 much less common. 



To grow, in perfection, the double Anemone (and it is of that only that we shall 

 now speak), it is requisite that the soil in which it is planted should be changed 

 each season; unless this is done, the blossoms, even of the finest varieties, will 

 speedily dwindle to an inconspicuous size. 



The soil best suited to this plant is a good light loam, containing a cousiderable 

 proportion of thoroughly decayed cow-dung. Anemone growers differ somewhat in 

 their opinion with regard to the mixture of the manure with the soil, some of 

 them advising that the cow-dung should be placed in a stratum, at a distance of 

 six inches from the surface, whilst others recommend that it should be thoroughly 

 incorporated with the soil. 



