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GLENNY ON THE ANEMONE. 
the principal flower stems : this will not only 
strengthen the bloom of the principal stems, 
but it will also assist the roots or tubers 
in their growth ; for although the growth of 
foliage is necessary to the increase of a root, 
the flowering, and fruiting, or seeding of 
anything is the reverse. On this account it 
is usual, in growing the off-sets of bulbs, such 
as hyacinths, to pick off all the pips of the 
spike of bloom but the top one, which is con- 
sidered enough to form a kind of leader for 
the sap of the stem, which, if picked off or 
broken, might bleed and rot the heart. The 
flowers of the Anemone should be shaded, the 
same as those of tulips, all the heat of the day, 
but it is generally done by hoops and cloths, 
instead of a stage like the tulip bed. Pay 
constant attention to weeding, for the neglect 
of this for a few days would almost overrun 
them in growing weather. Examine the 
seed pods of the early blossomed ones, and 
pick them daily if necessary ; they should be 
picked the instant they begin to loosen, which 
is easily seen, and if not taken in time, would 
blow all away in a few minutes ; directly 
therefore they begin to fall, loosen, or appear 
disturbed, they ought to be picked off, and in 
hot weather they must be examined two or 
three times a day. 
July. — Towards the end of the month the 
foliage of the earliest may begin to turn yellow 
and decay ; and, if so, they must be taken up 
directly, because the roots would be found in 
good order, and if left in the ground a few 
days, a shower or two of rain would start them 
into fresh growth, and then they must of ne- 
cessity be left to go on again another season. 
The later blooming ones will have gone off 
and begun to swell the seeds ; or it may be, if 
hot weather, they have actually begun to 
ripen : the treatment must be the same as has 
been already recommended for the earlier 
ones. Seedlings must be weeded still, and if 
they are too thick in the seed bed, they must 
be thinned ; the easiest way to do this is to 
water the bed till it is as soft as mud, they 
may then be pulled or lifted out with a piece 
of stick, and planted three inches apart in a 
new bed, and enough should be removed to leave 
them on the seed bed not more than two 
inches apart ; but if the sowing has been mo- 
derately thin, the bed should not be disturbed 
much ; it is only when there are little thick 
patches about that the places where they are 
too thick should be thinned. This applies to 
the beds that were sown in the spring, and in 
which the plants are now large enough to 
handle well. If these seedlings begin turning 
yellow, take them all up and replant tliem 
soon afterwards, as the smallness of the tubers 
makes them liable to dry up and lose their 
vegetating power. They should be dried in 
the shade to get rid of the extreme moisture 
which, in store, would subject them to mildew, 
and then be laid by in boxes for a month or 
two at the most; but it is to be understood that 
if they were removed from one bed and imme- 
diately planted in another, no harm would 
come of it ; on the contrary, they would soon 
vegetate again, and be progressing towards 
maturity. 
August. — All whose leaves have turned 
yellow should be taken up, and the larger ones 
dried and laid by ; the small bits may be 
planted again directly in fresh beds, and at 
the proper distances according to their size ; 
three inches is enough distance in the row, 
and the rows six inches apart. Those that 
continue growing must not be disturbed, but 
they must be weeded regularly, and also 
watered when they require it, for it would 
injure them greatly, when once they had started 
their fresh growth, to let them suffer for want 
of nourishment. In digging up Anemones 
there ought to be the greatest pains taken to 
get out every small bit of tuber, and after all 
has been done that could be done by hand, 
the earth, within two or three inches of the 
surface, ought to be sifted and picked, and the 
bits found thrown among the mixtures. The 
beds intended for October planting should be 
dug, and the earth thrown out on each side to 
sweeten ; it should also be turned over two or 
three times, and picked clear of wire worm, 
grub, or other enemy. As the flowers go off of 
the best beds, and the foliage indicates drying, 
the rain should be kept off to prevent the 
fresh growth of the tubers commencing before 
the other was done. 
September. — There is no treatment re- 
quired this month at all different to that 
previously mentioned, if there be any plants 
now growing ; and as for the most part they 
will be in store, they. should be occasionally 
examined to see that no mouldiness appear ; if 
there be, they should be brushed dry and laid 
in the dry a while before they are returned to 
their boxes or bags, for the mouldiness would 
soon destroy them if neglected. 
October. — This month, the quantity in- 
tended to bloom early should be planted. At 
the commencement the soil should be turned 
over for the last time, and mixed with as much 
cow dung properly rotted as would have laid 
three inches thick over the whole bed, and be 
well incorporated with the ordinary soil. We 
are presuming that the ground all over the 
garden is properly drained, and if not, it 
should be done, for it is morally impossible to 
grow these plants well in a soil in which the 
water lies, and although it is not always so 
considered, and many plants and flowers grow 
in spite of ill usage, all things would progress 
better for draining the soil. The btds should 
