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to prolong their beauty. This is most desirable with the later-planted ones, which 

 should flower in June ; the others being about a month earlier, will flower much sooner, 

 but, unless the season prove very mild, not so perfectly. "When the leaves have 



must be carefully dried and stored in a dry room. 



The anemone is propagated by dividing the tubers and by means of seed. Dividing 

 the tuber into too many pieces weakens the plants, although each portion of tuber 

 possessing a crown will grow. Seedlings may be raised by sowing as soon as the seeds 

 are gathered, or the following March or early April, in beds of light soil, the seeds being 

 freely mixed with sand in order to separate them. Old seed will not germinate. A 

 slight covering of soil should be placed over them, and the young plants will appear 

 in a month or less. The beds must be well watered in dry weather, and the following 

 April many will show their first flowers. Those which make moderate-sized roots 

 the first season after flowering may be lifted and treated as recommended for old 

 plants. 



Seeds may also be sown in pans or boxes in a frame or cold greenhouse in spring, 

 and the seedlings pricked out afterwards. Tor producing double flowers the seeds 

 should be saved from semi-double flowers. If sown early in spring the St. Brigid and 

 Aldborough Anemones will flower in autumn and winter, and if desired the tubers may 

 be left in the ground from year to year. 



Tubers can be purchased at a very low rate, and for ordinary garden purposes 

 anemones may be placed in beds or lines by themselves or among other border flowers. 

 For this purpose they may be planted either in autumn or spring, and will give good 

 flowers, the single and semi-double forms being preferable to the double ones for this 

 purpose. For early flowering, anemones may also be grown in frames or in pots in a cold 

 greenhouse. At present double poppy Anemones are seldom offered under name, but the 

 following are good. 



withered the tubers should be lifted, choosing dry weather for the operation. They 



Selection of Double Anemones. 



Ceres, white. 

 Hamlet, lilac. 

 Jeannette, red striped. 

 King of Scarlets, scarlet. 



L'Eclaii', scarlet. 

 Leverrier, purple. 

 King of the Blues, blue. 

 Eosette, white and red. 



Sir J. Paxton, violet. 

 Lord Palmerston, dark blue. 

 Chapeau de Cardinal, red striped. 

 The Bride, double white. 



Selection of Single Anemones. 



The Bride, white. 

 Eembrandt, blue. 



Aart Admiral, scarlet. 

 Garfield, vermilion. 



Von Moltke, lilac. 

 Potgieter, red variegated. 



