ANEMONES* 



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The Yellow Ranunculus with the rue leaf, prefers being potted 

 to being planted in beds. 



The Ranunculus propagates by seed as well as offsets. Sow 

 the seed as you do that of the auricula. 



The most admired ranunculuses are the white, the golden 

 yellow, the pale yellow, the citron-colored, and the brown red, 

 The red is the least esteemed. The yellow ranunculus speckled 

 with red, is handsome, — also the rose-color with white inside. 



Great varieties are obtained by seed. 



The Anemones love a light soil, composed of kitchen-garden 

 mould, and sand, and leaf mould, well mixed, and sifted fine. It 

 should, if possible, be composed a year before it is used; the 

 lighter it is the better for anemones. 



The seed should be sown in September. The single flowers 

 alone bear seed, which is fit to gather when it appears ready to 

 fly away with the first gust of wind. As soon as the seed is 

 lodged, and raked smoothly into its fine, light bed, strew the bed 

 over with straw or matting, and give it a good watering. In 

 three weeks the seed will begin to rise, when the straw may be 

 removed. The young plants will flower in the following April. 



When the roots are to be planted in September, sink them 

 about three inches deep, and six inches apart, that they may 

 come up strong and flower well. Make a hole in the ground for 

 them with your finger, and set them upon the broadest side, 

 with the slit downwards, 



Those anemones planted in September will flower in March 

 and April, and the roots planted in May flower in autumn, but 

 the flowers are never so fine. 



When anemones have done flowering, it requires some care in 

 taking up the roots, in order to part and put them by till the 

 time for replanting arrives. The roots or flaps are so small and 

 difficult to distinguish, that the x earth should be taken up and 



