with a large plant of fine, tall, waving grass. At 
Ningpo wild Roses are planted, which soon spread 
themselves over the grave, and, when their flowers 
expand, in spring, cover it with a sheet of pure 
white. At Shanghae a pretty bulbous plant, a 
species of Lycoris, covers the graves in autumn 
with masses of brilliant purple. When I first dis- 
covered the Anemone Japonica, it was in full flower 
amongst the graves of the natives, which are round 
the ramparts of Shanghae; it blooms in November, 
when other flowers have gone by, and is a most 
appropi’iate ornament to the last resting-places of 
the dead.” 
As Mr. Fortune did not discover it growing wild, 
it may not be a native of China, but may have been 
introduced from Japan, and this is the more probable 
from Shanghae being the Japanese port of China. 
Dr. Siebold, found it in damp woods, and by the 
side of rivulets, on mountains in Japan, in which 
country it is much cultivated for its beauty. 
It is one of the most desirable plants amongst 
Mr. Fortune’s Chinese treasures; and the more 
especially so, as it seems to be quite hardy. It 
may, or may not endure our severest frosts ; we, 
however, saw it flowering in the borders of the 
Handsworth nursery, in October, where it had 
been planted in the preceding year. In the green- 
house its flowering stems are said to have grown 
two feet high ; in the open ground they were not 
half that height. Until its capacity to bear severe 
frosts has been tested, it will be prudent to keep a 
plant in a pot of peat and loam, to have slight 
winter protection. 
