Pl. 43. 
Fig, 7. 
~ the Bloom of Summer. 
Culture of this Crown ImprRIAL. 
| The common Method of propagating the Plant | 
is by its Off-fets; thefe are produced freely, and 
they grow with little Trouble to Perfection : but 
To this Purpofe, let the Seeds be faved from 
fuch Plants as are robuft, and have a great Num- 
ber of Flowers. 
‘Let this be fown in Autumn upon any of the | 
light Compofts, and the young Plants weeded 
and watered. ae 
‘When their Leaves decay, let them be covered 
with a Finger’s Breadth of the fame Soil fifted 
over them. | 
- The next Year let them be planted at fix Inches 
Diftance in another Bed, and there Rand to 
| flower. 
Let the fineft be fnatked, and tranfplanted into 
a new Bed, at two Foot Diftance; and if thefe 
double and triple crown’d Kinds do not appear 
from this Sowing, let the Seeds of thofe felected 
- Plants be fown again, and treated with the fame 
we fhall recommend in this, as in all other In- | 
{tances, where there can be Varieties obtained, the | Care. 
_ faifing it from Seed. — 
When the fineft of this fecond Sowing have 
been planted out in their proper Beds, let them 
be propagated by Off-fets. | : 
The true Management is to take the Roots up as 
foon as the Leaves decay, and hardening them in 
the Air, to keep them out of the Ground till Zugu/t. 
They. muft then be planted at a Yard Diftance, 
and this repeated every Year, taking off the Off- 
fets, and planting them in a Bed in the Nurfery, 
| till they are of a Bignefs to flower in Per- 
fection. 
> GREAT CHALCEDONIAN ANEMONE. — 
This = the lateft of the Anemone Kind, and. 
one of the moft beautiful. At whatever Time it 
flowered, the Elegance of its Colouring would 
deferve Attention ; but there is a great additional 
Merit in its thus mixing its Spring Colouring with 
Mott of the Writers on Flowers have mentioned 
it: they call it Anemone Chalcedonia maxima, and 
Maxima Polyanthos. Others, Anemone latifolio flore 
coccineo: the {carlet broad-leaved Anemone. 
tals, as the other double Anemones : the outer’ 
ones broad and obtufe ; thofe of the inner Ranges, 
narrow, waved, and curled. 
The Colour is a very elegant Scarlet, variega- 
ted fometimes with a paler red, fometimes with a 
' 
_,| delicate green. a | 
The Characters of the Plant our Student knows 
he is to feek in a fingle Flower. ‘This in the pre- 
fent, as in the other Anemones, confifts of two 
Rows or Series of Petals, three in each, and 
Linnaeus, who reckons all the Variations of | ftands naked on the Stalk. Within are a Multi- 
Colouring, and Number of Petals in the Flower, | tude of fhort and flender Filaments,’ with upright 
doubled Buttons, furrounding a Clufter of Ru- 
diments of Seeds, each terminated by a pointed: 
as the Marks only of Seedling V arieties, diftin- 
-guifhes the original Plant to which this is to be 
refered, by the Figure of its Leaves. He calls | Style. 
it Anemone foltis digitatis, Finger’d-leav’d Anemone. 
This is his Diftin€tion of what is commonly called 
the broad-leaved from the narrow or fine-leaved 
Anemone. | | 
The Reot is tuberous, blackifh on the Outfide, 
white within, and hung with many long and 
large Fibres. 
The Leaves are placed on long F ootftalks, and 
they are of a rounded Form, but deeply cut in at 
the Edges. Ba 
_- Their Colour is a pale green on the upper Side, 
- and: they are frequently tinged with a purplifh 
Hue below. 
The Stalk is, round, hairy, of a pale green, 
and tolerably firm, a. Foot high, and fometimes 
branched. 
Toward the Middle of this is placed a leafy 
Appendage, divided into three irregular principal 
Parts, and thefe are deep cut in again at their Edges. 
The Colour is like that of the radical Leaves, 
but without the Purple underneath. 
On the Top ftands a large and very fpecious 
Flower : it is compofed of feveral Series. of Pe- 
The Filaments rife from the Receptacle ; atid 
this with their Number fhews the Plant one of the 
Polyandria: the Number of Styles alfo refer it 
to. the Polygynia. 
Culture of this ANEMONE. 
There is nothing particular in the Culture of 
this Anemone: it rifes from the Seed of the finole 
broad-leaved Kind, and muft be encreafed b 
patting the Roots. | ; 
All that is particular in the Management, is, 
July. 
RNa oc Pe ERE 
that it:fhould be planted late, and in a Place fhel-  - 
tered from the Sun; this will favour its natural | 
late Flowering, and defer it to the prefent ad- ° 
it will be much 
vanced. Seafon; at’ which 
more valuable, than appearing when it might be 
rivalled. by Numbers of its Kindred.. Flowers . 
later than their natural Time have generally a 
faded Afpeét, but it is not fo with this; under 
the Management we have directed it will be as 
full of Luftre as thofe in Spring. 
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SB AY. 
