GLENNY ON THE ANEMONE. 
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GLENN Y ON THE ANEMONE, 
ITS CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT. 
Tueke are very few subjects treated worse 
than the Anemone in this country. It is 
perished in the tuber or dry root, planted at 
a given time, bloomed, if it presumes to 
bloom, and taken up again to dry ; and after 
being stored a given time, again planted, to 
undergo the same routine over and over 
again. And people wonder that they cannot 
make sure of a good bloom year after year, 
as if the plant had a fair chance. The Ane- 
mone has been known, at any rate in our 
practice, to continue green the year round; 
and they ought not, under any circumstances, 
to be taken up while the foliage is green, 
for they will frequently maintain their bloom 
nearly all the winter through, and exhibit 
something like a constant growth and con- 
stant flowering for years. A bed of Anemo- 
nes planted in October will be up the same 
autumn if it be mild, and with light litter to 
protect them through the hardest frost, will 
bloom early in the spring, and continue flower- 
ing for a long period, at least partially ; and 
unless the leaves turn brown and decay, we 
should certainly not disturb them. There 
are single and semi-double of the florist's 
Anemone as well as double ones, and the most 
strange thing is, that the double one has no- 
thing in common with the .-ingle and senii- 
double kinds. The single varieties are cupped 
like a tulip, but the seed vessel is large and 
black ; when these have two or three rows of 
petals one within the other, they are called 
semi-double; but the double ones are like a 
flat dish formed with the petals, and the centre 
is filled with a cone of florets totally unlike 
the petals, and forming a mass of a different 
colour. We should like to see the florist 
labouring hard to procure a double one from 
the semi-double kinds, that is to say, by multi- 
plying the rows of petals until they fill up the 
flower like a ranunculus, and cover the seed- 
vessel altogether. The propagation of the 
Anemone from seed gives us the advantage of 
new varieties, but they rapidly increase by 
the root alone, and thus perpetuate those 
varieties already raised, and worth it. We 
must treat of these methods separately ; and 
first, we will speak of raising from seed. The 
best way to commence this is to pick out from 
some nursery collection some of the brightest 
and lust flowers, that is to sav, varieties with 
thick broad petals, forming a cup like a tulip, 
of half a hollow ball, with as many rows of 
petals as you can find ; but if there be any 
very brilliant and striking colour, it must not 
be lost sight of because it is quite single, be- 
cause it will lelp to diversify the seedlings to 
