ANEMONES 



or white, single, an inch and a half across. In the type there is a 

 distinct eye of a second color in the centre of the flower. Southern 

 Europe. May. 



Japanese Anemone, Anemone japonica, is native to China and Japan. 

 It blooms late in the season. Its roots are fleshy and its stem branch- 

 ing, the leaves ternate and the 

 flowers either white or rose, two 

 to three inches across. Sepals of 

 one to three whorls; corolla want- 

 ing; stamens many; the carpels 

 make a little green ball in the 

 centre of the blossom. 



Although America has beau- 

 tiful native Anemones, those of 

 the garden are aliens; two from 

 southern Europe bloom with 

 the tulips and the daffodils; 

 one from Japan keeps com- 

 pany with the dahlia and the 

 cosmos. 



The early Anemones require 

 essentially the same treatment 

 as tulips and are usually classed II 



with bulbous plants. They Japanese Anemone. Animme japdnica 



have held an honored place in 



English gardens for three hundred years, Anemone coronaria 

 coming from the Levant in 1596 and Anemone hortensis follow- 

 ing in 1597. 



The Japanese Anemones were brought into England in 1844. 

 They are excellent general utility plants; they bloom in shade, they 

 flourish in full sunshine, they are happy and contented at the 

 margins of streams and lakes. The color of the type is rose-red, 

 but the white variety seems to be the present favorite although 

 a silvery-pink is much in evidence. 



A white Japanese Anemone is really a flower of exquisite beauty. 

 The silvery star has a spread of two to three inches and in the 



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