102 ON THE CULTURE OF THE GARDEN ANEMONE. 



twice as high, while the scarlet flowers are only one-third its size, 

 and smooth, except the galea, or upper lip, which is somewhat 

 shaggy ; the middle segment of the lower lip kidney-shaped, a 

 great deal larger than the two lateral- ones ; emarginate leaves, 

 very rugose on the upper surface, and hroader ; the sinus at the 

 base deeper, and the two uppermost sessile ; the flower-hunches 

 longer, with from seven to twenty apparent whorls of pedicellated 

 flowers, each of them with ten or twelve flowers, generally twelve ; 

 the upper lip of the calyx ovate, acute, with a very short incurved 

 point. 



I have no book or specimens to compare this plant with Sal. 

 pulchella Decan. and Sal. machrostachya Humb et Bomp., to 

 which it seems somewhat alike. According to M. La Gasca, it 

 was cultivated in the open air in the Royal Gardens at Madrid, 

 from the year 1814 ; but the severe frost of December destroyed 

 its tender annual shoots. Mine were not at all affected by the 

 frosts of last winter. A Jersey Gardener. 



P.S. Plants of this beautiful Salvia are now selling by Mr. B. 

 Saunders, florist, Jersey. 



[An Engraving of this species is in hand. — Cond.] 



ARTICLE III. — On the Culture of the Garden Anemone 

 (Anemone hortensisj. By Innovator. 



At the request of your Querist " B. C. L.," I forward you my 

 most approved plan of cultivating that beautiful, but much neg- 

 lected flower, the Double Anemone. It is astonishing that it is 

 not more generally grown, as its culture is easy, and it invariably 

 repays us with a profusion of bloom. The practice that has 

 answered my most sanguine expectation is as follows : — About 

 the last fortnight in September, take out the natural soil of the 

 bed to the depth of eighteen inches ; in the bottom lay a layer 

 of cow-dung three or four inches thick ; then fill up the bed to 

 within an inch and a half of the surface, with the following com- 

 post : — Take of thoroughly l'otted cow or horse-dung, leaf mould, 

 and heavy loam, of each six barrowfuls ; white pit sand, two bar- 

 rowfuls, — which mix well together. Let the bed lay to settle till 

 the middle of October ; when, having raked over the surface, 



