ANCHUSA, ANEMONE, ANTHERICUM 253 



ANGHUSA 



Anchusa italica, var. Dropmore, with its brilliant, dazzling 

 blue flowers on 5- to 6-ft.-tall stems during June, is one of the de- 

 sirable plants for the hardy border. 



We find that it pays us best to treat this plant like a biennial, 

 sowing seed during early Spring under glass and later on planting 

 the small stock in the field. By the following year the plants will 

 be at their best. 



ANEMONE JAPONIGA 



This is without doubt the most beautiful of all late flowering 

 hardy plants. Not only is it in bloom when almost everything else 

 has gone, but the flowers when cut with 2-ft. stems will last in water 

 for days. Varieties rosea superba and Queen Charlotte are both 

 semi-double pink sorts — most unusual colors among our late flower- 

 ing perennials which mostly come in shades of white, fight blue, 

 yellow and brown. In many localities these Anemones are hardy 

 only when pfanted on weU-drained soil, and when they receive, 

 after being cut down by frost, a 10-in. layer of dry leaves and a cov- 

 ering of manure; but they are well worth aU the trouble one goes to. 

 Whirlwind is a fine white sort, also semi-double. 



Spring is the best time to plant these Anemones; plants out 

 of SJ/^-in. pots will flower nicely the first season. If you wish to 

 increase your stock, and have some field plants on hand, lift them, 

 cut the roots in 1-in. pieces and lay in flats between layers of sand; 

 keep them in a cool house, and by March place over a little bottom 

 heat. Every piece wiJ grow into a plant, which should be potted 

 up and planted out later. 



Anemone apennina 



While the Japan Anemones flower in late Summer and FaU the 

 tuberous-rooted ones, to which Anemone apennina belongs, bloom 

 in early Spring. To the florist they are interesting only because, if 

 tubers can be secured, by planting them in Fall in bulb pans and 

 gently forcing weU-rooted stock, he can get them to flower around 

 Easter the same as Ranunculus. 



ANTHERICUM 



The florist shouldn't get along without Anthericum — it is too 

 useful a plant. To begin with, we haven't a great many variegated 

 plants, and among those we have, few are inexpensive or very 

 hardy. Anthericum possesses both of these quafities. You can use 

 it in a small state as a center plant in a fern dish, and when larger 

 it will go weU in a plant arrangement in an indoor window box, or a 

 Christmas basket. You can plant it and have it do weU in the shade 



