GLENN T ON THE ANEMONE. 
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is unnecessary, they may be all thrown to- 
gether at once. It should, however, be recol- 
lected that the value of a florist's flower is 
greatly deteriorated by mixing, and that in 
selecting seedlings, we should be guided by 
those properties, which enhance the beauty of 
a variety, and thus improve on what we have; 
but the Anemone, single and semi-double, may 
be worth saving, though not worth naming 
and keeping separate ; therefore, while in 
flower, this distinction should be made, and 
in taking up, those to be kept separate must 
be bagged, while the others may be thrown 
together. While these are out of the ground 
they must be preserved from damp, which 
very soon destroys them, and from heat, 
which would shrivel, and if kept up too long, 
weaken or kill them outright ; they require 
as much care as soft bulbs in this respect, 
and if you have proper drawers for them, they I 
would be better loose in their several parti- 
tions than in bags. While any sort of bulb 
or tuber, or corm or other root, usually taken 
up are in store for the winter, they require 
frequent looking to ; and if any damp be per- 
ceptible they must be spread and dried, and 
the bags also dried; and this will suggest also 
that a place naturally more dry should be. 
selected for them. If, as it will sometimes 
happen, the foliage should die down or decay 
the first season, the roots may be taken up, 
and great care must be taken that they are 
all obtained, for they may not be very large ; 
and the only way to depend on getting them 
is to sift the top three inches of mould after 
you have taken out all you can. In this case 
they should be planted again in October, be- 
cause they are not the first year large enough 
to bear storing so long as when there is more 
substance. Indeed, even in case of the foliage 
dying down we should not remove them, un- 
less the ground were very foul, or the space 
wanted for something else, or it were desirable 
to change the place in which they are to grow ; 
we should prefer their remaining altogether, 
the second, if not the third year, merely re- 
moving as they come into flower all we in- 
tend to retain for their good qualities or 
remarkable colour, always excepting that we 
would not even let colour induce us to retain 
any star-like varieties, for narrow and pointed 
petals are the bane of floriculture, be they in 
whatever flower they may. 
The roots of the Anemone increase rapidly 
when in ground that suits them. They are 
for the most part shapeless brown tubers, the 
eyes in which are discernible and that is all, 
and of course, if broken into as many pieces 
as there are eyes, will make so many plants. 
It is, however, usual to break them into 
pieces with one strong and several weaker 
eyes, to ensure strong bloom to every piece 
of tuber. These are in general sold by weight 
in Holland, and although collections are now 
put up at London seed shops with a root of 
each of the several varieties, and the sale by 
weight almost confined to mixtures, the tubers 
run so uneven in point of size, that unless 
they are seen, or warranted to be strong 
enough to bloom, the weight seems to be the 
more satisfactory mode of disposing of them. 
The seedling tubers of such as are to be 
named and propagated should, for the sake of 
rapid increase, be broken into as many pieces 
as there are good eyes, so that the pieces are 
not too small, so as to risk their loss altogether, 
and they must be planted in a part of the 
garden where no Anemones have been before, 
and if possible in fresh loamy compost placed 
new for the occasion. It is all but impossible 
to clear the ground of tubers so fragile, and as 
a very small piece will grow, it would cause 
other sorts to be mixed with the new ones, 
which should be kept as distinct as possible. 
These distinct sorts should be planted in drills, 
and a label to each sort. Six inches apart is 
the proper distance for strong roots, but when 
you come to the smaller ones of each sort they 
may be three inches only. There should 
however be a very decided vacancy of six or 
eight inches between the last of one sort and 
the first of the next sort, to secure them from 
being mixed in the taking up. In this bed 
they may be placed in October, and they need 
not be taken up until the foliage turns yellow. 
They will bloom — such of them as are strong 
enough — by the early spring, and if there be 
a warm summer the foliage will turn yellow 
soon after the seed ripens; but if it do not 
turn yellow, but on the contrary continues 
growing, on no account disturb them. They 
will be all the better for remaining two sea- 
sons on the same spot, for unless the plant 
absolutely rests, which is indicated by the 
decaying leaves, it weakens the tuber to take 
it up. When they are taken up they require 
to be sorted and arranged into blooming roots 
and unblooming roots (for we treat the words 
tuber and root as the same thing though bota- 
nically it may be incorrect). Some of the 
largest may break into two or three blooming 
pieces, and several bits for planting, while 
many of the small bits of the previous year 
will have become large enough to flower well. 
In planting them again in the month of 
October the same care must be taken to keep 
them separate, to keep the blooming ones six 
inches apart, and those that are too small to 
flower three inches apart. You will shortly 
find you have a good stock of the varieties 
you have selected for naming and propa- 
gating, and you can let them out among 
other growers or not as you please. But in 
'he mean time you must have been saving 
