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Anemone Japonica ; 



leaves. In addition to these, it has the vaUiable habit of 

 blooming late in the autumn, when we have but few flowers 

 to enliven the border, or render gay the conservatory or par- 

 lor. Dr. Lindley, in brief notice of it, thus describes it : — 



"The Japan anemone produces its large purple semi-double 

 blossoms in the months of October and November, at that 

 moment when the gay flowers of summer begin to shrink from 



Fig. 18. Anemone Japonica. 



the cold and damp nights which the autumn brings in its 

 train to England. A native of damp woods on the mountains 

 of Japan, this hardy Asiatic disregards the chilly air of Great 

 Britain, and all such rigor as it may meet there in winter. 

 We have no frost that will harm it, no spring easterly winds 

 capable of pinching it, no summer heat with power to scorch 

 it ; on the contrary, our climate is like its own, and it is as 



