54 BIENNIAL FLOWERS. 



sink them about three inches deep, and six inches 

 apart, that they may come up strong and flower 

 well. Make a hole in the ground for them with 

 your finger, and set them upon the broadest side, 

 with the slit downwards. 



Those anemones planted in September will flow- 

 er in March and April, and the roots planted in 

 May, flower in autumn, but the flowers are never 

 so fine. 



When anemones have done flowering, it requires 

 some care in taking up the roots, in order to part 

 and put them by till the time for replanting arrives. 

 The roots or flaps are so small and difficult to dis- 

 tinguish, that the earth should be taken up and laid 

 upon a sieve to be sifted, when the flaps will alone 

 remain behind, or the earth may be deposited upon 

 an open newspaper or cloth, and well rubbed with 

 the hand to feel for the minute, dark-colored flaps, 

 which may easily escape observation. 



The beauty of this flower consists in its thick- 

 ness and roundness, especially when the great 

 leaves are a little above the thickness of the tuft. 



Choose your seed from the finest single ane- 

 mone, with a broad, round leaf. 



The remaining tuberous-rooted flowers are very 

 hardy. 



Biennials. 



Biennial flowers, as the name implies, are plants 

 that exist only two years. They are propagated by 

 seed, rising the first year, and flowering the second. 

 If they continue another year, they are sickly and 

 languid. The double biennials may be continued 

 by cuttings and slips of the tops, as well as by lay^ 

 ers and pipings, though the parent flower dies, -but 



