422 GARDEN PLANTS. PART IF. 



part evinced a great reluctance to blossom. Besides 1. C. bra- 

 chiata ; the native 2. C. Gouriana ; and the Spanish 3. C. Viticella, 

 there are met with in the Botanical Gardens : 



4. C. Cadmia. A new and very beautiful plant, producing in 

 the Cold season large star-formed flowers of five pure-violet 

 petals ; with dense and very pretty foliage of small ternate 

 leaves. It requires shade, and dies down in the Kains. 



5. C. Flammula. The common European species, so well known 

 for the exquisite fragrance of its blossoms, which during the 

 Bains it puts forth in clusters of small white flowers from its 

 dense small-leaved ternate foliage. 



Anemone. 



1. A. coronaria. The Florist's Anemone, a small tuberous 

 plant, producing flowers of extraordinary beauty, single and 

 double, in almost endless variety. The tubers must be im- 

 ported each season from England in time for planting in 

 October. They blossom about March. Their cultivation in 

 Calcutta is attended with little success, and even as high up 

 as Allahabad Mr. S. Jennings informed me his attempt to grow 

 them proved a failure. They succeed well in the North- West 

 Provinces. When at Ferozepore I imported tubers, which 

 blossomed well without much care bestowed upon them. While 

 there I also raised plants from seed ; the seed, being of a woolly 

 nature, is easily transmitted in a letter. I took up the young 

 tubers on the approach of the Hot weather, and kept them in 

 the house till the following Cold season, and then planted them 

 in pots, where they blossomed very freely and beautifully. But 

 I found that both imported and seedling tubers became worn- 

 out and worthless after once blossoming. 



They require a light soil of common mould and decayed 

 vegetable', matter, or very old ; rotted cow-manure and river- 

 sand. The tubers should be planted about two inches deep in 

 a hole into which a pinch of sand has been dropped. 



2. A. Japonica. A native of China, from whence it was sent 

 here some years ago by Mr. Fortune, but, though thriving well, 

 has never blossomed. The flowers two inches across, pale pink, 

 are very beautiful, and in England during the autumn are 

 quite an ornament to the garden. There is a white variety, 

 and one of great beauty named Honorine Jobert. Though a 



