Large flowered anemone varieties are rarely grown. They are not so showy as the other types, but worth growing because the blooms cannot be bought 



from the centre stake to the wire circle, mid- 

 way between each two side stakes. This 

 will form an umbrella-like frame with ten 

 divisions. 



Now count the number of blooms on your 

 plant, divide the number by ten and place 

 the corresponding number of blooms in each 

 division. Some of the blooms can be tied to 

 the wires, others can be tied to pieces of green 

 smilax twine, tied between each two wires. 

 If this entire operation has been properly 

 performed you will have a plant that is by no 

 means stiff yet neat looking. fe<§ 



The treatment for standard plants is the 

 same as for specimen plants except that in- 

 stead of stopping the plants while in their 

 first pots, they are grown with a single stem 

 to the desired height, say 20 to 30 in. then 

 stopped and the same treatment given as to 

 the specimen plants and the same method of 

 supporting the blooms may be adopted, ex- 

 cept that a stout wood stake must be used for 

 the centre of the plant, and the wires fastened 

 to this stake. 



VARIETIES FOR SPECIMEN PLANTS 



Among the few varieties for this are: 



White. Polly Rose: earliest gocd white; 

 reflexed. Ivory: early midseason, small and 

 compact, one of the best Japanese incurved. 

 Mrs. J. W. Trantor; Mrs. H. Weeks; 

 rather tall growing, but can te grown to a 

 beautiful plant ; Japanese incurved. 



Pink. Miss A. Dalskov: pink sport from 

 Ivory, with all its parent's gccd qualities. 

 A. J. Balfour: the best of its color; Japanese 

 incurved. Viviand-Morel: will make one 

 of the best bush plants; Japanese reflexed. 

 Dr. Enguehard: incurved; one of the novel- 

 ties. 



Yellow. Col. D. Appelton: rather tall, 

 but a good grower; large blooms; Japanese 

 incurved. Clinton Chalfont: Chinese in- 



curved. W. H. Lincoln: strong grower, one 

 of the very best; Japanese incurved. 



Red. George W. Childs: will make good 

 plants if not overfed; Japanese incurved. 

 The Bard: one of the best. Red Warrior. 

 John Shrimpton : good foliage, will not make 

 a large plant; Japanese reflexed. 



Bronze. Charles Davis: sport from Viv- 

 iand-Morel. Kate Broomhead: rather tall, 

 good grower. 



VARIETIES FOR CUT BLOOMS 



White. Mrs. H. Weeks: one of the best 

 varieties when properly handled; Japanese 

 incurved. Mrs. H. Robinson: the best early 

 white; Japanese incurved. Merza: dwarf, 

 good foliage, good for six-inch pots; Japan- 

 ese incurved. Mrs. D. V. West: an excel- 

 lent new variety; Japanese reflexed. Nellie 

 Pockett: a prominent prize winner at many 

 exhibitions. Timothy Eaton: very large, 

 coarse, but a good grower and long keeper; 

 Japanese incurved. Beatrice May: one of 

 the latest introductions, and promises to be 

 one of the best of its class ; Japanese incurved.. 

 Alice Byron : a splendid variety, very refined 

 effect, but not of the largest size; Japanese 

 incurved. 



Pink. W. Duckham: the best midseason 

 variety of its color; Japanese incurved. 

 Leila Filkins: dwarf grower, fine blooms; 

 Japanese reflexed. A. J. Balfour: the finest 

 color of all pink varieties ; Japanese incurved. 

 F. A. Cobbold: strong grower. 



Yellow. Col. D. Appleton: the standard 

 of its color, and an excellent variety. F. S. 

 Vallis: dwarf grower, splendid blooms; Jap- 

 anese reflexed. Mrs. Wm. Knox: a promis- 

 ing new variety ; Japanese reflexed. Golden 

 Wedding: the best color of this class, 

 good useful sort ; Japanese. Chrysanthemiste 

 Montigney: lemon yellow, large and 

 fine. 



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Red. Mrs. J. A. Miller: very large. 

 Merstham Red: dwarf grower; medium 

 size; Japanese reflexed. 



Crimson. John Shrimpton: Japanese re- 

 flexed. Merstham Crimson: large blooms, 

 a new and very promising variety; reflexed. 

 S. T. Wright: a good standard variety. 

 Maynell: with bronze reverse, very large 

 blooms; reflexed. 



Bronze. Mary Inglis: very large, good 

 grower. Mrs. George Hearmie: a new and 

 fine variety; dwarf grower; Japanese. Kate 

 Broomhead: a good standard variety; Jap- 

 anese incurved. 



Flesh pink. Ben Wells : a splendid flower, 

 and good grower; Japanese. T. Richard- 

 son: new, and very promising. 



Other colors. Mrs. John E. Dunne, pink- 

 ish terra-cotta ; new, promises to be a remark- 

 ably fine variety; reflexed. W. R. Church* 

 purplish crimson, massive blooms; Japan- 

 ese incurved. Mrs. Henry Partridge: purple 

 with bronze reverse, new and promising. 



WINTERING THE OLD PLANTS 



To have good plants or good blooms the 

 succeeding season, make preparations as 

 soon as the flowers are well developed, in the 

 current year. Decide what varieties you 

 wish to grow again. Mark such plants 

 "stock," giving the name of the variety. As 

 soon as the flowers are cut, store these stock 

 plants away in some cool house, or cold- 

 frame, where they can be freely ventilated, 

 and receive a fair amount of light. Light 

 frost will do them no harm, provided they are 

 not subjected to bright sunshine while frozen. 

 I winter my stock in a deep coldframe. 

 Plants are taken out as needed for propaga- 

 ting, and put in a cool greenhouse, where the 

 temperature ranges from 45 to 60 degrees. 

 Here the plants soon start into growth, and 

 an abundance of cuttings may be secured. 



