VII. LIST OP FLOWERS, 



off the glasses unless the weather be very severe, and 

 shade from sun by day j give gentle waterings, or admit 

 showers of rain. When the leaves of these plants have 

 died away completely (which will be about the end of 

 March), take up every tuber carefully and put them by in 

 drawers, till the next October or November, and then 

 plant them in beds or patches where you mean them to 

 blow in the next spring. If you have sowed them in 

 drills in your bed, you will find it a much easier work to 

 take up the young tubers than if you had sowed them 

 broad cast j for you easily follow the. rows and pick out 

 the little pieces, which it would puzzle you to distinguish 

 from stones when sowed in the other manner. By di- 

 viding the roots of anemones you multiply your number 

 very easily. Do this with a sharp knife when you take 

 up your roots that are overblown, cutting them into as 

 many pieces as there are strong and plump buds, each of 

 which will blow strongly the next spring. The soil for 

 the anemone is a good, strong, rich garden mould, and 

 the manure rotten cow or horse dung ; but the former is 

 mostly preferred, though neither should be put too close 

 to the roots of the plants, but should be digged in at a 

 foot or a foot and a half below the surface of the ground. 

 Avoid planting in a much exposed situation, for the high 

 winds knock the plants about, and severe frost will cause 

 them sometimes to blow less finely than they would do 

 without such. Raise the beds to about three or four 

 inches above the walks, so that rains may not lie upon 

 them ; and plant about the latter end of October, though, 

 if your soil be very wet, it may be better to plant later 

 (the middle of February) as the plant has less time to re- 

 main dormant and run the risk of rotting. Put in your 



