170 THE RANUNCULUS. 



of this flower is nearly a month, if you take but the 

 pains to shade them. 



By the middle of July the stems will have become 

 withered and decayed, which points out the time for 

 their being taken up : this should be done on a dry 

 day. The stems may be shortened, but not cut close 

 to the roots yet and the roots should be parted be- 

 fore they get dry and hard, or else they are apt to 

 break in parting. Let them be dried gradually in 

 a shady room, open to a free circulation of air. 



The Anemone may be treated in every respect as 

 the Ranunculus, with this slight difference, that it 

 requires to be planted a little deeper in the ground : 

 to say more would only be an unnecessary repetition 

 of the same directions. 



Many persons are fond of buying Dutch Ranun- 

 culuses and Tulips, which now come over every 

 autumn, under the impression of not only getting 

 them very cheap, (which, of course, they sometimes 

 are enabled to do, as it would not answer the im- 

 porter's purpose to send them back again to Holland 

 unsold,) but also of getting them very fine. In thia 



