A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF BULBOUS-ROOTED PLANTS, WITH 

 DIRECTIONS FOR THEIR CULTIVATION. 



"Fair-handed Spring unbosoms every grace ; 

 Throws out the Snow-drop and the Crocus first ; 

 The Daisy, Primrose, Violet darkly blue, 

 And Polyanthus of unnumbered dyes ; 

 The yellow Wall-flower stained with iron-brown, 

 And lavish stock that scents the garden round." 



ANEMONE. 

 Wind Flower Garden Anemone. 



" See ! yon Anemones their leaves unfold, 

 With rubies flaming, and with living gold." 



VERY little attention has been paid, in this section of the 

 country, to the cultivation of this most beautiful flower, from 

 the fact, probably, that it will not stand our winters, unless 

 planted in a frame, or otherwise protected. With this precau- 

 tion, arid some little attention, it will abundantly repay all the 

 labor that may be bestowed upon it. 



I have succeeded very well, in its cultivation, by keeping the 

 roots out of ground until March, and then planting them in a 

 bed prepared in the fall, that had been kept covered till the 

 time of planting. The roots of Anemones are solid, flattened 

 masses, like those of ginger, arid, like them, are multiplied by 

 divisions of the root. 



The Anemone hortensis, or garden Anemone, is the species 

 from which all the fine varieties of the florist's flowers origi- 

 nated. More than one hundred and fifty choice varieties are 

 enumerated in some of the Dutch catalogues of the present 

 day, classed as follows : red, or blood color ; rosy and white, 

 flamed with purple ; sky blue ; purple or ash color ; rosy, with 



