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readily. It should be covered with about half an inch 

 of fine moist soil. If the plants come up thickly they 

 should be thinned, and they may be subsequently trans- 

 planted if desired, but it is not indispensable. The seed 

 bed should not be allowed to get quite dry. The seed 

 may be sown in a frame or greenhouse if the grower has 

 either. 



By making special provision it is easy to have Poppy 

 Anemones in bloom for several months. By sowing 

 seed in spring and planting in frames in autumn, flowers 

 can be had in January and February. In March, out- 

 door plants from tubers inserted in autumn will begin to 

 bloom in sheltered places, and there should be bloom in 

 April and May. Flowers can be had in June and July 

 by planting tubers in February or March. Autumn and 

 winter bloom should come from seed sown in spring. 

 Thus it is possible to get Anemones from one class alone 

 nearly every month in the year. 



The specialist will grow all the varieties of the Poppy 

 Anemone which he can get, but others will be content 

 with the St. Brigid mixture and King of Scarlets. These 

 will give some of the finest forms. The St. Brigids 

 embrace a great diversity of beautiful colours, and the 

 flowers are as large as breakfast-cups. Most of them 

 are semi-double. Considering their beauty and cheap- 

 ness (the best strains only cost about five shillings per 

 100 tubers) they should be grown by every flower- 

 lover. 



Fulgens, the next on our list of Anemones, is the 

 well-known scarlet Windflower, and a most brilliant 

 one it is. It grows about a foot high, and has several 

 varieties, notably annulata, crimson with white base ; 

 flore-pleno, double scarlet; graeca, scarlet, with black 

 boss ; oculata gigantea, scarlet, with pale yellow eye ; 



