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necessary to shade and shelter them whilst in bloom, in order to 
prolong the extreme beauty of their flowers. 
Anemones continue longer after bloom in a state of vegetation, 
than ranunculuses, probably because of their greater degree of suc- 
culency; and even at the proper time to take them up, it will some- 
times happen, that part of their foliage will not be entirely divested 
of greenness and moisture; when it thus happens, which it does 
more frequently in rainy or wet seasons, much skill is necessary to 
ascertain the critical period to take up the roots; for if they are 
suffered to remain too long, especially if the season be moist, they 
will shoot afresh, and be thereby materially weakened and injured; 
it is indeed better to take them up too early, than suffer them to 
vegetate in this manner, but the roots will not be so firm and solid 
as if done at the exact time. The safest and most effectual me- 
thod to preserve them from these disagreeable consequences, is to 
keep off all heavy rains, after the bloom is quite over, by means of 
mats and hoops, but on no account suffer the ground to become too 
dry; the roots will then regularly and gradually mature, and the 
foliage in due time will become brown and dry, which will point 
out the true time to take up the roots, and this will usually happen 
to be about a month after bloom. 
For their subsequent treatment, see the Flower-Garden for next 
month. 
A Description of the Properties of a fine Double Anemone. 
The stem should be strong, elastic, and erect, not less than nine 
or ten inches high. 
The blossom, or corolla, should be at least two inches and a half 
in diameter, consisting of an exterior row of large substantial well 
rounded petals or guard leaves, at first horizontally extended, and 
then turning a little upwards, so as to form a broad shallow cup, the 
interior part of which, should contain a great number of long nar- 
row petals, imbricating each other, and rather reverting from ihe 
centre of the blossom; there are a great number of small slender 
stamens, intermixed with these petals, but they are short, and not 
easily discernible. 
The colour should be clear and distinct, when diversified in the 
same flower, or brilliant and striking if it consists only of one co- 
loui", as blue, crimson, or scarlet, &.c. in which case, the bottoms of 
the broad exterior petals are generally white; but the beauty and 
contrast is considerably increased, when both the exterior and inte- 
rior petals are regularly marked with alternate blue and white, or 
pink and white stripes, Sec. which in the broad petals should not 
extend quite to the margin. 
Early Flowering Bulbs. 
Any curious bulbs that are now in flower, may be much prolonged 
in bloom and beauty, by occasional shade from the sun. 
Spring crocuses, snow-drops, fritillaries, crown-imperials, dens 
canises, and all other early flowering bulbs that have done flower- 
