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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



September, 1911 



This Pompeian stone fountain designed and 

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Growing Anemones Near 

 Chicago 



I HAVE been growing anemones for the past 

 three years in Glencoe, which is twenty miles 

 north of Chicago. When I first talked with 

 my neighbors about growing anemones and 

 ranunculus I was told there was no use to 

 try; that they had tried them without any suc- 

 cess. I have never been quite willing to take 

 another's word regarding the growing of flowers, 

 however, and tried them for myself with very 

 happy results. 



The soil and climatic conditions of Glencoe 

 are the worst that I have known anywhere. I 

 have lived most of my time in the East but for the 

 last ten years have been in Chicago; and nowhere 

 in New England or north of here do they experience 

 the difficulties that we do about Chicago. 



I planted Anemone coronaria, which I bought 

 in Holland, in front of a border of shrubbery. 

 In this border I also plant the spring bulbs and 

 annuals later in the season. Unless plants will 

 do well with a minimum of care I am not willing 

 to devote much time to them so that these did not 

 get any special treatment. The only thing that 

 I did was to cover the whole border with a layer 

 of straw and leaves, leaving it on until rather late 

 in the spring. 



Some of the anemones have bloomed a second 

 year, but most of them bloom but once. However, 

 the cost is quite insignificant and the returns are 

 very much worth while. 



I am a long way from an expert gardener and 

 what I have done I am sure that others can do. 

 In fact, three or four of my immediate neighbors, 

 after seeing my anemones, have planted them and 

 have succeeded in growing them quite well the 

 first year. Whether they will come up a second 

 year or not is a question. 



Illinois. Oscar J. West. 



Forcing Anemone Coronaria 



I HAVE read with considerable interest the 

 second installment of "The Fun of Collecting 

 Anemones," in the June Garden Magazine, but 

 I could not understand why so much time was 

 devoted to the attempts at outdoor culture until 

 I looked back at the introduction of the previous 

 article. I have never grown Anemone coronaria 

 out-of-doors, nor made attempts at it, and I think 

 that it can be done only by going to considerable 

 expense in preparing the ground for them and 

 covering the ground in which they are growing 

 for a considerable portion of the year with cold- 

 frames, or with the plant boxes which have recently 

 been advertised by one of the greenhouse builders, 

 a suggestion which was made in the article men- 

 tioned. 



I think that there should have been added to 

 that story the fact that they can be very easily 

 grown in pots and forced into bloom in March. 

 They are just as easy to grow as tulips and 

 hyacinths; they require, when grown in pots, 

 the same treatment as the Cape bulbs, such as 

 freesia, ixia, etc. For several years I grew from 

 a hundred to a hundred and fifty 8-inch pans of 

 the various varieties of coronaria in the green- 

 house. I used a good potting soil and stored the 

 plants during the late fall and early winter in a 

 "pit" or deep coldframe, where the frost did not 

 enter, but where the nightly temperature was 

 about 35 degrees. They were near the glass and 

 had the sun nearly every day during the win- 

 ter, and as much ventilation as we could con- 

 veniently give. Late in January, or early in 

 February, the pots were transferred to a cool 

 greenhouse, the temperature of which was from 

 35 to 37 degrees at night, with a rise of 10 or 15 

 degrees during the day time. This brought the 

 plants into flower in March. 



With double glass sashes any one should be able to 

 grow these delightful plants with but little trouble. 

 Here in Central Pennsylvania during the past win- 

 ter there were several coldframes which went through 

 the winter growing lettuce and radishes without any 

 other protection than a banking around the sides 

 and ends of the frame. Such a place would be ideal 

 for these anemones, provided, of course, it was 

 ventilated during the day. 



Pennsylvania. P. T. Barnes. 



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