SHRUBBERIES AND FLOWER-GARDENS. CHAP. 



roots at five inches apart every way, making straight 

 drills of about two inches depth for their reception, and 

 taking care to place them in these at even distances, a ] 

 great deal of the beauty of these beds depending upon 

 regular order j and, when all the roots are placed in the 

 drills, cover them over up to the edge of the drills with ; 

 fine earth. The bud, I need hardly say, of the root, or 

 tuber, should be uppermost, and the roots, which will 

 have the appearance of brown coarse threads, down- 

 wards. The anemone, though a very hardy thing, cer- 

 tainly blows the finer if not pinched during its growth by 

 frosts, and it is, therefore, the practice with all the florists 

 to be prepared with a suitable covering of wheaten or 

 barley straw as the winter approaches, so that the first in- 

 timation of frost is a warning to them to cover over their 

 beds of these and other similar roots. They are, however, 

 careful not to endanger vegetation by keeping these cover- 

 ings on unnecessarily, when they would assuredly cause 

 the roots to become mouldy and eventually rot ; but they 

 watch for frosty nights, arid keep off the coverings at all 

 times excepting those. By the end of June, the plants 

 begin dying down, and that is_the time for taking them 

 up, separating such as you mean to separate, and putting 

 all by for the next autumn. 



417. ARCHANGEL, balm-leaved. Lat. Lamium or- 

 vala. Fr. Lamier oruale. A hardy perennial plant of 

 Italy, two feet high, and blows a flower of a pale reddish 

 violet colour, in May, June, and July. Readily increased 

 from suckers, and likes a good rich garden soil. 



418. ARNICA, Corsican. Lat. Arnica Corsica. Fr. 



