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ANEMONE CORONARIA. 



POPPY, OR CROWN ANEMONE. 



Class, POLYANDRIA. Order, POLYGYNIA. 

 Natural Order, RANUNCULACE^. 



The brilliance and variety of colours displayed 

 in the flowers of this half-hardy exotic, have long 

 attracted the notice of the florist, and raised it to 

 the rank of a bed-flower. It is one of those whose 

 extreme delicacy of structure shrinks from the 

 full blaze and withering effects of a summer sun, 

 and therefore is destined by Nature to come forth 

 under the mild temperature and light of a vernal 

 sky. The rigour of our winters, which is more 

 extreme than that of their native habitat, imposes 

 on the florist a particular care in the management, 

 to give these strangers all the advantages of our 

 temperate climate, while they are defended from 

 the severity in the early, or occasional dryness 

 during the latter, part of their seasonal life. 



