FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
do not produce seeds, the essential organs having been converted into 
petals by the doubling process. The single and semi-double flowers are 
the seed-producers, and only the finest of these in form and colour should 
be allowed to mature their seed vessels. It should be remembered that 
it is from seed that variety is obtained. If you have a pet strain you 
wish to propagate you can be sure of doing so only by root-division. 
On the other hand, if you are ambitious to raise new varieties you must 
select plants of good habit, with well-formed and finely-coloured flowers, 
and by means of a camel-hair brush convey the freshly shed pollen 
from the anthers of one plant to the stigmas of another. The seed may 
be sown in a moist warm bed outside, prepared as if for onions, and the 
soil should be covered with slates or mats till the seeds germinate; or in 
seed-pans, filled with light sandy soil, and placed in a cold frame. When 
the leaves of the seedlings have withered at the end of their first season, 
sift fresh earth over the bed to the depth of a quarter-inch, and leave 
them. At the end of their second summer they will be large enough to 
take up and plant out where they are intended to flower in the following 
spring. Most of the seedlings will be ordinary varieties, but in all 
probability new forms will be found. These, of course, should be marked 
and placed apart at the resting-season. 
Description of Plate 3, Anemone coronaria, showing variation in 
Plates 3 and 4. f orm an d colour of the flowers. The flesh-tinted specimen 
has had the stamens developed into very slender petals. -In the lower 
left-hand corner is a stamen removed and enlarged. Fig 1 is a vertical 
section through the flower after removal of the sepals. The carpels are 
crowded upon a hollow cone-like receptacle, and surrounded by a great 
number of stamens. Fig. 2 shows the carpels more clearly after 
removing both sepals and stamens. Fig. 3 is one carpel detached, 
showing the style with its stigmatic tip. It develops into a fruit called 
an achene, which is like a little nut, with a solitary seed within. 
Plate 4, Anemone hortensis , showing a few of the variations in 
form and number of the floral leaves. It will be seen that the broadest 
of these is very narrow when compared with those of A. coronaria. 
Fig. 1 represents the tuberous rootstocks with their leaves; Fig 2 is a 
section through the receptacle corresponding with Fig 1 of Plate 3. 
Anemone Hepatica and a few allies constitute a kind of sub-genus 
or section of Anemone so far as the cultivated species are concerned, but 
the groups are connected by species not in cultivation. Formerly they 
were regarded as a distinct genus {Hepatica), the characters relied upon 
for the separation being found in the carpels lacking the tails found in 
