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a well known American species. Divi-j annually at tlie decay of the leaf, and 

 sion, offsets, or seeds. Light loam. I the root may be divided or broken into 

 The anemone, the florist's flower of as many pieces or knobs as are furnished 

 our gardens, is the oftspring of the A. with an eye or hud, observing, how- 

 f oro«<ir/a (poppy anemone), and j4. /lor- ever, that if they are divided very 

 tensis (star-leaved anemone). Sprung small, they flower very weak the first 

 from these there are now about eighty year ; therefore, if you would have 

 varieties in our catalogues. A variety strong flowers from the main root, only 



lasts about twelve years. The follow- 

 ing is a good selection. 



Agnita. 



Belle Hortense. 



IJellona. 



Couicur de Sang. 



Court de France. 



iRegina Rubrorum. 

 Reine Caudale. 



des Fleurs. 



of Anemones. 



Remarkable. 



Cramoisie Superbe. Rosalia. 



Grand Duke. 

 High Admirable. 

 Imperatrice. 

 Incomparable A- 



zure. 

 Olympia. 

 Regina Augusta. 



Rose Agreeable. 



Jolie. 



Mernette. 



Parfaite. 



Snrpassante. 



Superbe Royale. 

 Triumphante. 



Characteristics of a good anemone. — 

 The stem should be strong, elastic, and 

 erect, not less than nine inches high. 

 The blossom or corolla should be at 

 least two inches and a half in diameter, 

 consisting of an exterior row of large 

 substantial well-rounded petals or 

 guard-leaves, at first horizontally ex- 

 tended, and then turning a little up- 

 wards, so as to form a broad shallow 

 cup, the interior part of which should 

 contain a great number of long small 

 petals imbricating each other, and 

 rather reverting from the centre of the 

 blossom : there are a great number of 



break off those small ones that are 

 slightly affixed thereto, but they should 

 not be thus divided until autumn, or 

 near the time for planting them again. 



The time for taking up tlie roots is in 

 May and June, wiien the leaf and stalk 

 are withered, for then the roots cease 

 to grow for a month or six weeks; but 

 if they are permitted to stand to put 

 forth fresh fibres again, they should not 

 be removed that season. 



They should be taken up in dry 

 weather, and spread in an airy place 

 out of the sun for about a week, then 

 cleared from earth and put up in bags 

 or boxes till the planting season arrive. 



The seed should be sowed from the 

 best single or semi-double flowers; the 

 full doubles afford none. 



The time to sow it is March, either 

 in boxes, large pots, or pans, of light 

 compost, or in a bod of such earth ; sow 

 it moderately thick, and cover it near a 

 quarter of an inch deep with sifted 

 mould. From this time occasional shade 

 and moderate waterings in dry weather 

 are necessary, and in six weeks the 

 plants will appear. Keep them clear 

 from weeds, and when the leaves decay, 

 sift a quarter of an inch of earth over 



small slender stamens intermixed with the bed, which is all that is necessary 



these petals, but they are short and not 

 easily discernible. The colour should 

 be clear and distinct when diversified 

 in the same flower, or brilliant and 

 striking if it consists only of one colour, 

 as blue, crimson, or scarlet, &,c., in 

 which case the bottom of the broad ex- 

 terior petals is generally white; but the 



till the second summer, when they are 

 to be taken up at the decay of the leaf, 

 and managed as the old roots in the 

 manner already directed. 



Time for planting. — The best time to 

 plant the principal sorts for the general 

 bloom is October, or early iu Novem- 

 ber, and the plants will come into flower 



beauty and contrast are considerably in- in April and beginning of May ; but if 

 creased when both the exterior petals some are planted in the middle of Sep- 

 are regularly marked with alternate tember, and a second parcel towards 

 blue and white, or pink and white, &c., the middle or latter end of October, 

 stripes, which, in the broad petals, [ they will afford a succession of bloom 

 should not extend quite to the margin, i from the beginning of April until the 



Propagation. — All the varieties are middle of May ; and if a third plantation 

 propagated by offsets from the root, , is made in February or beginning of 

 and new varieties are obtained from March, they will come into flower about 

 seed. the middle of May, and continue until 



By offsets all the kinds increase ex- I the middle of June, 

 ceedingly every year, so the roots of | Those planted early in autumn come 

 ail the best kinds should be taken up i up before Christmas, and always pro- 

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