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set about Christmas. The first planted will begin to flower 

 early in April, and continue for three or four weeks ; the 

 others will follow in succession. As soon as the leaves 

 decay, which of those first planted, will be in June, the 

 roots should be taken up, the decayed parts and the earth 

 cleared away ; and, having been dried in the shade, they 

 should be put in some secure place, where they may be 

 perfectly dry, and particularly where mice, &c. cannot find 

 access to them. This opportunity may be taken to part 

 the roots for increase ; and provided each part has a good 

 eye or bud, it will grow and flower ; but they will not 

 flower so strong if parted small. The roots will be weak- 

 ened, if suffered to remain long in the earth after the 

 leaves decay. They will keep out of the earth for two, or 

 even three years, and grow when planted. The single, 

 or Poppy Anemone, will, in mild seasons, blow throughout 

 the winter. 



Earth proper for the Anemone may be procured from 

 a nursery ; the roots may be planted in pots five inches 

 wide ; the earth an inch and a half deep over the top of the 

 roots, and the eye of the root upwards. They must be kept 

 moderately moist, shaded from the noon-day sun, and ex- 

 posed to that of the morning. In the winter they should 

 be placed under shelter, but should have plenty of fresh 

 air, when not frosty. 



The Abbe la Pluche relates a curious anecdote of M. 

 Bachelier, a Parisian florist, who, having imported some 

 very beautiful species of the Anemone from the East Indies 

 to Paris, kept them to himself in so miserly a manner, that 

 for ten successive years he never would give to any friend 

 or relation whomsoever the least fibre of a double Anemone, 

 or the root of one single one. A counsellor of the parlia- 

 ment, vexed to see one man hoard up for himself a benefit 

 which nature intended to be common to all, paid him a 

 visit at his country-house, and, 'in walking round the gar- 



