OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN FLOWERS. 



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To those wishing to grow this choice Anemone, let me say, 

 begin with the young underground runners ; plant them in the 

 autumn anywhere you like, but see that the soil is deep, and if 



FIG. 8. 



ANEMONE JAPONICA ALBA (A. HONORINE JOBERT). 

 (About one-twelfth natural size.) 



it is not rich, make it so with well-decayed leaves or manure, 

 and you will have your reward. 



Flowering period, August to November. 



Anemone Nemorosa Flore-pleno. 



DOUBLE WOOD ANEMONE, or WINDFLOWER ; Nat. Ord. 



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THIS is the double form of the common British species ; in 

 every part but the flower it resembles the type. The flower, 

 from being double, and perhaps from being grown in more ex- 

 posed situations than the common form in the shaded woods, is 

 much more durable; an established clump has kept in good 

 form for three weeks. 



The petals (if they may be so called), which render this flower 



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