THE ANEMONE. 



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A double anemone should have the outer petals quite 

 flat, the second series a little shorter, the third shorter still ; 

 and so on till the centre is quite full, when the whole 

 should form a rather flat hemisphere. Every double flower 

 should be of one full color. 



Of anemones, there are about twenty species with tuber- 

 ous roots, and some forty herbaceous species. Many of 

 these are very fine : among which we may mention the 

 pretty wood-anemone (A. nemorosa) and the double variety ; 

 A. Appenina, with blue flowers ; A. narcissiflora ; A. Japon- 



