THE ANEMONE-FLOWERED TYPES. 
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never seen in better form and condition than when they 
are grown in quite a free manner. Instead of growing 
but three or four blooms on each plant, at least twenty, 
and possibly double that number, should be encouraged to 
develop. Such specimens disposed here and there in the 
greenhouse or conservatory create a very pleasing diversion 
to the all too common practice of growers of filling their 
glass structures with the Japanese kinds only. Freely- 
flowered plants of the anemone kinds may be brought into 
effect by adopting the system of pinching or stopping the 
plants, as advised in the case of decorative chrysanthe- 
mums. The more drastic system of cutting-back the 
plants may also be followed with advantage. This matter 
is also treated fully in Chapter II. 
Types. — There are what are termed by the expert Large- 
flowered Anemones and Japanese or Long-Tasselled 
Anemones. Both types have a beauty peculiarly their 
own, although the Japanese Anemones are the more quaint 
and fascinating. The former have a high, neatly-formed 
centre, or disc, with regularly arranged ray florets sur- 
rounding the same. The disc or centre of the Japanese 
Anemones is less regular in outline, and the ray florets 
vary considerably in length, breadth, and arrangement; 
in some blooms the florets are narrow and much twisted, 
or they are broad and curled, or, in others, the ray 
florets droop and form a beautiful fringe-like finish. 
Readers can imagine what freely-flowered plants of such 
interesting types of the “ Autumn Queen ” look like when 
at their best. Growers of decorative chrysanthemums 
would be well advised to grow a lesser number of the 
Japanese varieties, and make up the difference with the 
types under notice. 
The Pompon Anemones, as the name suggests, are 
miniature editions of their larger-flowered rivals. The 
plants when under good culture evolve a charming series 
of dainty blossoms, the inflorescence being defined well 
down the stems on which the sprays are produced. In 
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