Big. 6, 
cs. A CO IM PERORPARTo BrOSD'Y 8. 
May. abieie of cued his fixth Chip and neh Sec- 
tion. 
From this natural Condition of ; ihe Flower we 
thall be led eafily to underftand the Nature of 
that fpecious and. fingular Form in which it ap- |. 
pears in the Plant here defcribed. 
We have feen that in moft double Flowers the 
Parts of Impregnation are obliterated, the Fulnefs 
of the Petals taking the Place of thems on the 
contrary, in. this Flower inftead of fix there are 
ten F ilaments ; ; or at leaft a larger than the natural. 
‘Number. — 
Let. us recollect, that ufually they are two | 
or more Flowers on this Plant; but in the 
double State only one: 
 bably from the joining or uniting of the Foot- 
~ ftalks of the two or three Flowers into one Body ; 
whence alfo the Petals form only one-Flower. 
This is the Origin, but this does not anfwer 
‘the whole Purpofe; for if the Flower confifted 
of the three fingle ones united, the Petals would 
be but eighteen, and the Threads with their 
- Buttons would be of the fame Number ; where- 
as the Petals are here thirty, and the Threads 
only ten. 3 
Nature has taken Advantage of the firft Condi- 
tion of the Flower thus formed of two, or three, or 
more, and has added from the Luxuriance of 
Culture many more Petals' than they would have> 
contained ; reducing the Threads in Proportion. 
_ Thus is formed this moft {pecious Flower, not 
and we _ fhall thence 
find that the Origin of this Doublenefs is pro- 
as other dauble ones by the mere Exuberance of im 
Nature, but from, this affifted by an accidental ———- | 
Union of two or more natural F lowers. 
Calture of this Litiy. 
This iolsetait Variety can only be raifed by 
Seed ; and when once obtained, mutt be increaled 
by Off-fets. 
The Plant, in its wild State, 1s Native of the 
) Fatt, and of fome Southern Parts of Europe, and 
it there grows always in a damp rich Mould. 
This fhould be the Rule for its Soil. A Mix- 
ture of two Parts, Meadow Earth and one Part 
Pond Mud, with a little rotted Cow Dung, will 
anfwer very well. 7 
The Seeds fhould be Gined from a good . 
Flower, and fown on a Bed of this Compt in 
Auguft. They ,will require the common Care of 
feedling bulbous Plants, as we have directed 
treating of the Fritillary ; and when they come 
to flower, there will be many Varieties. If a 
double one do not appear from this firft fowing, 
the whole muft be repeated; and when one of 
thefe is obtained, the Propagation muft be by 
Off fets, which encreafe very faft, and require 
the fame Soil. : 
Once in three Years the Roots mutt be taken 
up, and their Off-fets feparated. This fhould 
be done in the End of ¥uly ; and they fhould 
then be planted again in Beds of the fame Com- 
_poft. 
6. DOUBLE WwoopD ANEMONE.’ 
This is a very humble Flower to ) be ranked 
among the Anemones, but it is properly and 
truly of that Kind, and is not unworthy a Place, 
provided it be rightly chofen in the beft Gar- 
dens ; though a Native of our own Country. 
~The original Plant for this double Flower is 
a Variety, as in other Cafes, is common in 
~ Woods, and is defcribed by all who have written 
onthe European Herbs: 
siven it the proper Name Anemone. Some, 
thinking fo mean a Plant unworthy a Title 
compmvarily allotted to the fpecious Kinds, have 
called it. Ranunculus, adding Phragmites albus, 
and Nemorofus albus. | 
- Thofe who have given it the proper Name 
Anemone, keep the fame Addition of Nemoro/a 
alba. 
_Linnus, more corre¢t in his fpecific Deno- 
nominations, calls it, Anemone feminibus acutis, fo- 
liolis incifis, caule uniflore :. fharp feeded Anemone. 
with divided Segments, and one Flower -on the © 
Stalk. 
The Root is oblong, irregular and ecu it 
runs under the Surface, and is hung with many 
Fibres. | : 
- The Leaves’ are placed on long flender Foot- 
ftalks, and are large, of a deep green, divided 
I 
Pl. 34, 
and moft of them have | 
ten of a true pedach-bloffom. 
into three pririettal Parts, and thofe again deeply 
cut on the Edges. 
~ The Stalk is fix Inches High, tender and red- 
diithé not at all branched ; and on its Top ftands 
a fingle Flower. 
This in the wild and natural State of the Plant 
is large, white, and compofed of fix Petals placed 
in. two Series, as the Flowers of the other Ane- 
monies: like them, by good Management, it 
will become double, and in this State is very 
beautiful. : 
There will often, in the wild and fingle State 
‘of the Flower, be a Blufh of Crimfon with the 
White, which gives it a very confiderable additio- 
‘nal Beauty ; in the double State it preferves the 
fame Tendency to this Mixture, and becomes of- 
This is extremely 
beautiful in the double State; becaufe the Shades 
are innumerable among the Clufter of {mall loofe 
Petals. : 
To trace the Characters of the Plant, the Stu-. 
dent. mutt be refer’d to the wild fingle Flower. 
This he will find like the other Anemones naked, 
compofed of two Series of Petals, with a vaft 
Clufter of Threads in the Midft, crowned with 
doubled Buttons, and in their Centre a.Head or 
Clufter of Rudiments of Seeds: the Threads he 
will 
