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Some of the anemones also seem to have mis- 

 taken the season and have burst into bloom. Al- 

 phonse Karr relates how this flower was orig- 

 inally brought to France from India, more than 

 two centuries ago, by a Monsieur Bachelier, who 

 declined for ten years to distribute it. But his 

 selfish design was frustrated by a magistrate who 

 visited him in his robes of office, which he trailed 

 over some of the precious plants while in seed, 

 carrying away some of the seeds which attached 

 themselves to the wool of his garment. 



