ANEMONE. 



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ANIGOZANTHOS. 



need all the attention usually be- 

 stowed on a florist's flower. Of the 

 other kinds, A. palmata, with bright 

 yellow flowers, is best deserving of 

 cultivation. The hepatica was once 

 called Anemone hepatica, though 

 this name has been long changed to 

 Hepatica triloba. The florists' ane- 

 mones spring from two species : the 

 garland or Poppy Anemone, A. coro- 

 naria, with the outer petals, or rather 

 sepals, rounded ; and the Star Ane- 

 mone, A. hortensis, or stellata, with 

 them pointed. To these may perhaps 

 be added a third, A. pavonina, resem- 

 bling the last. The tubers of these fine 

 kinds of anemones, and their hybrids 

 and varieties, are sold in the seed- 

 shops by the hundred. They should 

 be planted in October, in beds pre- 

 pared for their reception ; and where 

 expense is not an object, these beds 

 should be dug out to the depth of 

 about a foot. In the bottom of the 

 pit thus formed, should be spread a 

 layer of rotten cow-dung, six or eight 

 inches thick; and on this, fresh loamy 

 soil, so as to raise the bed three or 

 four inches above the level of the 

 walks. The surface of the bed is then 

 raked smooth, and drills or furrows 

 made in it about five inches apart, and 

 two inches deep. A little sand should 

 be strewed along these drills, and the 

 anemone roots placed in them three 

 or four inches apart. Care must be 

 taken, in planting, to let the tubers 

 have the side which contains the bud 

 uppermost ; and it sometimes requires 

 rather a close examination to discover 

 which side this is, particularly if the 

 dry fibrous roots have been rubbed 

 off, as the bud is not very conspicuous. 

 All the pieces accidentally broken off 

 should be preserved, as they will all 

 grow, and form fresh tubers. The 

 bed should be covered with bast mats 

 stretched over hoops, or bundles of 

 siraw tied together, when danger is 

 apprehended from frost ; but this co- 



vering should be so contrived as to be 

 easily removed when necessary, as the 

 tubers are very liable to be injured, 

 and even to become mouldy, by damp. 

 When the plants begin to grow, they 

 should be frequently watered with 

 rain water, so as never to allow the 

 fibrous roots to wither from drought ; 

 and when the plants have done flower- 

 ing, the mats on hoops should be 

 again stretched over the bed, and the 

 plants kept quite dry, till their leaves 

 be brown and wither, which will ge- 

 nerally be in about a month after they 

 have done flowering. The tubers 

 should then be taken up, and kept 

 dry, till the return of the proper sea- 

 son for planting. When seedling 

 anemones are to be raised, the seed 

 should be divested of its pappus, by 

 rubbing it between the hands, or 

 through a sieve, and sown in pots or 

 boxes in August ; the young tubers 

 should be taken up Avhen the leaves 

 wither the following summer, and re- 

 planted in autumn, when they will 

 flower the following spring. 



Angelica-tree. See Aralia. 



Angelonia. — Scrophularinece. — 

 An evergreen perennial, with very 

 beautiful blue flowers, a native of 

 South America. It should be kept 

 in a cool airy part of the stove, or in 

 a greenhouse ; and it should be al- 

 lowed a season of rest, during which 

 it should have scarcely any water. 

 The soil should be a very sandy 

 loam, mixed with peat earth, and it 

 may be propagated, though with diffi- 

 culty, by cutiings, struck in pure 

 sand. 



Anigozanthos. — Haemodoracece. 

 — Evergreen herbaceous plants from 

 New Holland, with deep crimson 

 and green flowers, one of which, A. 

 Maiiylesii, well deserves a place 

 in every greenhouse. It should have 

 abundance of light and air, and grows 

 freely in loam and peat, kept moist ; 

 it is readily increased by division, 



