ANEMONE. 



ANEMONE. 



natives of North America. They delight 

 in bog, like all other so-called American 

 plants, and their roots should never be 

 suffered to become quite dry; for if this 

 occurs, the plant has seldom vigour enough 

 to send out a sufficient quantity of new 

 roots, and in general dies. All the kinds 

 may be propagated by layers, or by seeds 

 sown as soon as ripe in pans or boxes and 

 placed in a cold frame to germinate. 



Anem'one, or Windflower (n 



ord. Ranuncula'cese). 

 Anemones, which are hardy tuberous 

 perennials, are hardier than ranunculuses, 

 have a richer foliage, and their flowers 

 resemble miniature semi-double hollyhocks. 

 They also include most of the colours of 

 the hollyhock, except a pure white or 

 yellow ; but to compensate for the want of 

 these, nothing can exceed in loveliness the 



DOUBLE ANEMONE. 



blue or purple, or in glory the scarlet, of 

 the anemone. And although there is 

 neither a white nor a yellow self among 

 them, for the single -white is not wholly 

 white, yet several of them are beautifully 

 striped with these colours. The foliage is 

 elegantly cut, and the growth is neat and 

 compact. 



The flowers of the double anemone, as 

 will be seen from the accompanying illus- 

 tration, are extremely handsome ; they have 

 outer guard petals, lesembling a semi- 

 double hollyhock. 



The single anemone, also illustrated here, 



SINGLE ANEMONE. 



has beautiful poppy-like blossoms of large 

 size and various colours. 



Culture. Anemones delight in a light, 

 rich, loamy soil, but generally succeed in 

 any which is well drained. Sea-sand, or a 

 little salt mixed with the soil, is a good 

 preventive of mildew. They may be 

 planted from October to the end of March, 

 and a succession of bloom thus secured, 

 n mild seasons, from February until July. 

 They will flower well in almost any com- 

 mon garden soil, but it is desirable that the 

 jround in which they are grown should be 

 olerably light (some consider that a cal- 

 careous, dry soil suits them best), and that 

 t should be well drained and enriched with 

 decayed manure, or manure from a spent 

 hotbed. The tubers are generally planted 

 n the early part of the year, but the roots 

 can be obtained from September to March, 

 nd it is desirable that beds should be 

 brmed about October, and the tubers 

 planted immediately after from 4 to 6 



