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small leaves, finely cut or jagged, like those of carrots, 

 among which rise up naked stalkes roughf, hairie, where- 

 upon doe grow beautiful floures, bell-fashion, of a bright 

 delaied purple color; in the bottom whereof groweth a 

 tuft of yellow thrumbs, and in the middle of the thrumbs 

 it thrusteth forth a small purple pointell. When the 

 whole flower is passed, there succeedeth an head or knob, 

 compact of many gray hairy lockes, and in the solid part 

 of the knob lieth the seed, flat and hairy, — every seed 

 having his own small haire hanging at it. The root is 

 thicke and knobby, of a finger long, running right down, 

 and therefore not unlike those of the Anemone, which it 

 doth in all its other parts very notably resemble, and 

 whereof no doubt this is a kind." 



A. nemorosa^ or Wood Anemone, is one of our earliest 

 flowers in spring, appearing in April, and continuing 

 through May; found in company with violets and other 

 vernal flowers, in woods and pastures, and by the side of 

 walls and fences. It grows in spreading clusters, sending 

 up its stem, bearing three leaves, which is crowned with 

 one single white flower, the external part of which is of 

 a reddish-purple. It requires care in transplanting and to 

 be set in a shady and moist place. The Rue-leaved Ane- 

 mone is placed under Thalictrum. 



A. hortensis, or Garden Anemone, is the species from 

 which all the fine varieties of the florist's flowers origin- 

 ated. 



" See I 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 othewise protected. 

 With this precaution, and some little attention, it will 



