ee ee ee a Rea 
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Feb. — 
= feét Kind, or double blue are left, it will be eafy 
Plate 
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Fig. 2. 
OF GARDENING 
out in. fhady Borders : and when only the per- { up and planted at the due Diftance. Thus will 
to difpofe them. | will glow with all their Luftre. They will vattly 
They muft ftand at a Foot Diftance in the | exceed the common double Kind in Bignefs and 
Bed; and as many of them as can muft be left | in Colour. - 
unremov’d, thofe which grow near being taken’ 
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2 GREAT PURPLE ANEMONE, 
We fhall, in fome fucceeding Numbers, treat] tho’ at a Diftance from it, than as a common 
largely of the Double, the Variegated, and the Pro- | Leaf: but it is like the other, naturally divided 
liferous Anemonies: but we mention firft a fpe- | into three Parts. ss | | 
cious Kind tho’ fingle ; not only as it rifes earlieft On the Summit of the Stalk is plac’d a fingle 
in Seafon, but as it is the Parent of the reft.. Moft | Flower; this is of a very confiderable Size and a 
of the finer Kinds are rais’d from Seeds of | confpicuous Colour, a deep Violet Purple. We 
this. © i Pots : _ |-are accuftom’d to the Double Anemonies, - and 
All the Botanic Writers name it. Camerarius | neglect this; but it is naturally a very handfome. 
‘and his Followers with the fingle Name Avemone. | Flower. — 
Others add senuifolia, as the Diftin@ion from an- 
other Kind, in which the firft Leaves are broader. 
To this others add /implici flore. Fine-leav’d A. 
nemone with fingle Flowers; and juftly give that | 
Name with various Epithets of Diftinétion to all 
the Anemonies rais’d from this Stock. — | 
Linnzus founds his Diftin@ion of this Spe- 
cies alfo on the Leaves; but he expreffés it in 
Terms more fcientific’: he calls the Plant Azemone 
foliis decompofitis ternatis: Anemone, with the 
‘Leaves fubdivided in the ternate Manner. : 
It rifes naked from the Summit of the Stalk, 
and confifts of an uncertain Number of Petals : 
more ufually they are nine; and in the Luxuri- 
ance of Culture they become innumerable. 
- They are rang’d ‘naturally in diftinét Series, 
three in each; and in the Centre are plac’d nu- 
merous Filaments, crown’d with a kind of dou- 
ble Buttons. There rife in the Midft of thee a 
Number of Styles, from the Rudiments of fo 
many Seeds, which afterwards ftand in a naked 
Head. | 
Our Student knows that numerous Filaments 
belong equally to the icofandrous and polyandrous 
Clafies ; the Diftin@tion being in their Infertion.' 
They eftablith this icofandrous Clafs when they 
rife from- the Cup; but this Flower having no 
Cup they fhew the Plant belongs to the polyan- 
drous Tribe. The numerous Styles declare it 
alfo to be one of the Polygynia, 
The Root is tuberous and irregular, brown on 
‘the Outfide, whitifh within, and hung with many 
thick Fibres ; dividing itfelf in Time into nume- 
rous Heads. 3 | 
The Leaves are large and beautiful. They 
nave long hollow’d Footftalks, reddifh at the 
Bafe, and in the upper Part green. | 
The Body of the Leaf is of confiderable Ex- 
tent, but it is divided into very numerous Seg- 
ments, and thefe are again fubdivided into others ; 
the Partition being all the Way in Three’s; more 
Cult thi . 
or lefs regularly. ulture of this AN® MON E 
\ 
The Stalk is round, tolerably upright, not 
very thick: purplifh at the Bafe, and upwards 
green. It is not divided or branched; nor, ex- 
cept at one Place, has any Leaf. 
At fome Diftance from the Top ftands this | 
fingle leafy Addition, which is to be confider’d _ 
rather as a foliaceous Involucrum for the F lower, 
This is not an Anemone to be rais’d for its own 
Sake, but as the Parent of the Double Kinds ; 
‘tis under the fucceeding Heads we fhall defcribe 
the Methods of raifing them from its Seeds. 
This thrives freely in a common Border. It is a 
Native of the Eaf, and there flourithés by the 
Sides of Woods, 
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- GOLDEN 
when poorly nourifh’d thefe will be only fix, 
Feb, 
the Bed be fill’d ; and the next Year the Flowers -——— 
