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saved and planted, as they will form fresh tubers in time. It is generally not thought worth while to make a 
regular bed for this species and its varieties, as they are very inferior both in size and beauty to the varieties of 
A. coronaria ; and they may be planted in the borders in any tolerably good garden mould, taking care that 
they are not under the drip of trees. They flower very well in London, without appearing at all injured by the 
smoke. The species is a native of the south of Europe ; and it was introduced before 1596. 
10.— ANEMONE CORONARIA Lin. THE NARROW-LEAVED, OR POPPY ANEMONE. 
Specific Character. — Leaves ternato, deeply cut, with numerouB 
linear segments. Involucre sessile, deeply cut. Sepals six, oval, 
rounded. 
Synonymes. — A. hortensis Wein. ; A. ttnanthe Rwm. ; Garland- 
flowering Anemone ; Garden Anemone. 
Engravings. — Bot. Mag. t. 814 ; and our Jig. 1 in Plate 3 ; and 
Jigs. 1, 2, and 3, in Plate 4. 
Description, &c. — This species and its varieties constitute what are generally termed the florists'" anemones ; 
and in the double varieties the sepals, which are called by the florists the guard-leaves, remain the same, while 
the stamens and carpels are changed into petals of quite a difiierent shape and appearance. The tubers, which are 
sold in the seed-shops, and resemble those of the last species, should be planted either in October or February : 
in the first case they will flower in April, and in the latter in June. According to the usual method of growing 
these flowers, a bed should be dug, eighteen inches or two feet deep, and at the bottom of this bed should be laid 
a stratum, six or eight inches deep, of old cow-dung ; if two years old, so much the better. The bed should 
then be filled in with fresh loam from a field, if it can be procured, and if not, with good sandy loam. If 
expense be an object, the cow-dung may be mixed with earth at the bottom of the pit, but it is better without ; 
and there shoiild always be at least a foot deep of soil above it. The bed should be raised about four inches 
above the level of the surrounding garden, and drills should be drawn from one end of the bed to the other about 
two inches deep. White sand should then be sprinkled along the drills, and the tubers should be planted three 
or four inches apart, according to their size, the largest kinds being, of course, planted farthest apart. The drills 
should then be covered level, and the beds raked quite smooth and even. As anemones are tolerably hardy, they 
will very seldom require any protection, but in cases of very hard frost a mat or two may be laid on the autumn- 
planted beds. When the plants begin to appear above ground, if the season be dry, they may be occasionally 
watered with rain-water ; and then watering may be continued regularly as the plants approach flowering. 
Another mode of cultivating the anemone, and which is said to produce flowers of extraordinary size and 
beauty, is to form a bed about eighteen inches deep, and to place a layer of stones, brickbats, and other drainage 
at the bottom, about six inches deep. The bed is then filled up with fresh loam, and the tubers planted in drills 
with sand, and covered as before directed, and over the whole is placed a layer of cow-dung three or four inches 
thick. The beds which are planted in February are watered with pond or rain-water regularly once a day, if 
the weather should be dry and not frosty, during the month of March, and twice a day afterwards till they 
flower ; but those that are planted in autumn are seldom watered till the leaves appear above ground. The 
watering carries the manure in small quantities into the ground, and the young plants thus treated are said both 
to grow and to flower with extraordinary vigour. It must be observed, however, that there must be at least 
two inches of soil between the cow-dung and the tubers ; as, if this were not the case, the tubers would be 
rotted. 
After the anemones have done flowering, they should be kept quite dry by covering the bed with hoops and 
