RANUNCULUSES AND ANEMONES. 53 



or seven inches apart. The flowers will repay 

 your care. When ranunculuses in pots have flow- 

 ered, remove them from the August rains, or take 

 up the roots, to replant in September. 



The Ranunculus with the double white flower 

 must not be taken up until September, when it 

 should be taken up quickly, its roots parted, and 

 replanted immediately. 



The yellow Ranunculus with the rue leaf, pre- 

 fers being potted to being planted in beds. 



The Ranunculus propagates by seed as well as 

 offsets. Sow the seed as you do that of the 

 auricula. 



The most admired ranunculuses are the white, 

 the golden yellow, the pale yellow, the citron-color- 

 ed, and the brown red. The red is the least es- 

 teemed. The yellow ranunculus speckled with 

 red, is handsome, also the rose-color with white 

 inside. 



Great varieties are obtained by seed. 



The Anemones love a light soil, composed of 

 kitchen-garden mould, and sand, and leaf mould, 

 well mixed, and sifted fine. It should, if possible, 

 be composed a year before it is used; the lighter 

 it is the better for anemones. 



The seed should be sown in September. The 

 single flowers alone bear seed, which is fit to gath- 

 er when it appears ready to fly away with the first 

 gust of wind. As soon as the seed is lodged, and 

 raked smoothly into its fine, light bed, strew the 

 bed over with straw or matting, and give it a good 

 watering. In three weeks the seed will begin to 

 rise, when the straw may be removed. The young 

 plants will flower in the following April. 



When the roots are to be planted in September, 



