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i, BLOOD-RED.- ANEMONE. 
May. ‘°F E have told the Gatdener, on a former | and tii | is one of them. ‘Fantattic Gardeners have May. 
a Occafion, that Nature affords few di-_ call’d | it the Princefs, and the bleeding Princefs, cn 
P L 33° {tinct Species’ of the Anemone ; ‘ahd | Nathes ‘hot to. be repeated bit in Derifion. ie ga 
Fig. 1. that hie Variety he fees, like that he raifes by his departs little from the ofiginal Plant, except. in 
own Application, is the Effect of happy Culture. 
Nature is herfelf very luxuriant in this Kind of 
Plant. — 
The little wild Antimony that fliews its milky 
White, or lightly blufhing Flower in our Woods 
and Thickets, has often mabe than its due Num- 
ber of Petals; fometimes it is abfolutely double: 
ho Wonder therefore that its Varieties are excellent 
and até unnumber’d, when every thing that can 
- contribute to feed this natural Luxuriante is given 
to it. When only Seeds of fineft Flowers are fown; 
when Compofts fuited to its Nature, but enrich’d 
far beyond what Nature ever gave, ate allow’d to 
it; and Warmth and Shelter, and Defence and 
Sun, when needful, are given it, Year by Year, 
with an unwearied and diligent Hand : hence have 
arifen the various Improvements of our Artifts, 
Flower exceeding Flower; and hence they will 
rife. innumer shiv: becaufe from better Flowers 
the fame ‘Art will yield {till richer Improve- 
ments. °° 
. We have told the Botanift how many rife from © 
the common Stock-of the fine- leav’d Anemone, 
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vided Rib; 
| Colour. 
the glorious ‘Red with hich it is colour’d, and: - 
in: the ‘Fitmnefs: of the Stalk; and is the Kind 
call’d’ by common “Writers, Anemone tenuifolia floré 
rubro : by Linn ats, and the more Correct, foliis 
radicalibns -ternato decompofi tis, involucro foliofo: 
Anemone, with the Bottom Leaves fubdivided by 
Three - and with a ‘leafy Involucrum.: 
“The Root is thick, irregular, brown, and hung 
about with innumetable Fibres. 3 
The firft Leaves are large, and placed ¢ on a di- 
they are cut into 4 Multitude of 
fmall oblong Parts by Three’s s; ahd dré in Colour 
of a fréfh aiid lively green. 
The Stalk is thick, firm, a F dot high; to- 
lerably upright, of a pale green, freely ftain’d 
with a purplith Red; and a little above its Middle 
grows ohe leafy Subftance, This is of a deeper 
ereen than the Leaves which rife from the Root, 
ate is divided into many Segments in the fame 
general Manner, but with lefs Regularity. 
‘At the Top of the Stalk ftands one Flower, large 
and confpicuous by its bright and glowing 
Tis of = Bignels of a fingle Rofe; in 
5 Colour 
