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tintil after the third year, when you have feen them 
blow ftrong, at which time you will be capable to 
judge of their goodnefs ; for until the roots have ac- 
quired ftrength, the flowers will not Drew themfelves 
to advantage. 
By this time your roots will be too thick in the feed- 
bed to remain, therefore you muft, as foon as their 
green leaves are decayed, fift the earth of your bed 
through a very fine fieve, in order to get out the 
roots, which can be no otherwife found, as being 
fmall, and fo nearly the colour of the ground ; but 
in doing this, obferve not to difturb the ground too 
deep, fo as to endanger the burying any of the roots ; 
for, notwithftanding all your care, many fmall roots 
will be left behind, therefore as foon as you have lift- 
ed your whole bed, and taken out all the roots you 
can find, you muff level the earth of your bed again, 
and let it remain till next year, when you will find a 
plentiful crop of roots come up again •, the young 
roots which you take up muff be dried, as was diredted 
for the old ones, but fhould be planted again three 
weeks before them, that they may increafe in ftrength, 
fo as to flower ftrongly the fucceeding year. 
The Angle (or Poppy) Aneriionies will flower moft 
part of the winter and fpring, when the feafons are 
favourable, if they are planted in a warm fltuation, 
at which time they make a fine appearance, therefore 
deferve a place in every flower-garden, efpecially as 
they require little culture •, for if thefe roots are taken 
up every other year, it will be often enough ; and 
when they are taken up, they fhould be planted again 
very early in the autumn, otherwife they will not 
flower till the fpring. There are fome fine blue co- 
lours amongft thefe Angle Anemonies, which, with 
the Scarlets and Reds, make a beautiful mixture of 
colours •, and as thefe begin flowering in January or 
February, when the weather is cold, they will conti- 
nue a long time in beauty, provided the froft is not 
too fevere. The feeds of thefe are ripe by the mid- 
dle or end of May, and muft be gathered daily as it 
ripens, otherwife it will foon be blown away by the 
winds. 
The Anemone grows naturally in the Levant, parti- 
cularly in the iflands of the Archipelago, where the 
borders of the fields are covered with them of all the 
colours, but the flowers are Angle, and have been 
greatly improved by culture. In France they were 
long cultivated before they were much known in Hol- 
land or England. Tournefort mentions two French 
gentlemen, Meflrs. Malaval and Bachelier, who con- 
tributed greatly to the improvement of thefe flowers ; 
and of the latter he relates a pleafant ftory, as fol- 
lows : There was a certain lawyer to whom Mr. Ba- 
chelier had refufed to communicate the feeds of his 
fine Anemonies, and finding he could not obtain any 
cither by friendfhip or money, a fancy came into his 
head, to make a vifit to Mr. Bachelier, with fome of 
his friends who were in the fecret • he ordered his 
lacquey who fupported- the train of his gown, to let 
it drop on a bed where the Anemonies grew, which 
he wanted, whofe feeds were then ripe.- They walked 
a confiderable time talking on various fubjedts, and 
when they came to the fpot where the Anemonies 
grew, a merry gentleman of the company began a 
ftory, which engaged the attention of Mr. Bachelier ; 
at which time the lacquey, who was no fool, let fall 
his mafter’s train over the bed, and the feeds having 
a downy covering, ftuck to the gown, which the boy 
afterwards took up again, and the company went for- 
ward. The virtuofb took leave of Mr. Bachelier, and 
went diredtly home, where he carefully picked off the 
feeds which had ftuck to his robes, and fowed them, 
which produced veiy beautiful flowers. 
The feventh fort grows naturally in Canada and Si- 
beria ; the roots of this creep and multiply greatly 
in the ground, the lower leaves are deeply cut ; the 
ftalks rife two feet high, garni fired with leaves placed 
oppofite, which embrace the ftalks, and the flowers 
are produced from the forks of the ftalks upon (len- 
der foot-ftalks ; thefe flowers are white, and being 
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fmall, make little appearance, fo the plant is rarely 
preferved, except in botanic gardens for variety : it 
is a very hardy plant, and multiplies very faft where 
it is allowed to have a place. 
The eighth fort is a very humble plant, feldom rifing 
more than fix inches high. This grows naturally in 
the woods of North America, where it flowers early 
in the fpring, when it makes a pretty appearance, 
efpecially if many of the plants grow in clufters : 
fome of thefe flowers are double, which make a bet- 
ter appearance than the Angle, and continue longer 
in beauty. The leaves of this plant are very like 
thofe of Meadow Rue *, the ftalks have leaves grow- 
ing in whorles, and are terminated by a Angle flower: 
this fort fhould be planted under the fhelter of trees, 
and if the furface of the ground is covered with rotten 
tanners bark in winter* it will greatly preferve the 
plants. 
ANEMONOIDES. See Anemone. 
ANEMONOSPJLRMOS. See Arctotis. 
ANETHUM, Dill, from clvoa and to run up* 
becaufe it is quick of growth. 
The Characters are, 
It is an umbelliferous plant , having many umbels , which 
have no involucrum. The umbels are uniform , and com- 
pofed of many /matter ones. The flowers have five fpear- 
/leaped petals each of thefe have five J lender ftamina ,. 
crowned with blunt fummits \ under the flower is fituated 
the germen , fupporting two fmall ftyles crowned with blunt 
ftigma •, the germen afterward becomes two ccmpreffed feeds 
having borders. 
This genus of plants is ranged in the fecond feetion 
of the fifth clafs of Linnaeus’s genera, which is enti- 
tled Pentandria Digynia, the flowers having five fta- 
mina and two ftyles. 
We have but one Species of this genus, viz. 
Anethum ( Graveolens ) frudtibus compreflis. Plort. Cliff, 
io 6. Dill with ccmpreffed feeds. Anethum hortenfe. 
C. B. P. 147. Common Dill. 
There are two other varieties which are mentioned 
as diftindt fpecies by the botanifts, but I have fre- 
quently fown them, and have always found them 
prove to be only varieties arifmg from the fame feeds. 
This plant is propagated by fowing the feeds, which 
fhould be done in autumn foon after they are ripe ; 
for if they are kept out of the ground till fpring, they 
frequently mifcarry ; or if any of the plants come 
up, they often decay before they have perfected their 
feeds. They love a light foil, and will not bear to be 
tranfplanted, but muft be fown where they are to re- 
main, and fhould be allowed eight or ten inches room 
to grow, otherwife they will draw up very weak, and 
produce few lateral branches, whereby their leaves 
will decay, and be rendered ufelefs, nor will they 
produce fo good feeds ; therefore the beft way is, 
when the plants are come up, to hoe them out, as is 
pradtifed for Onions, Carrots, &c. leaving the plants 
about eight or ten inches afunder every way, obferv- 
ing to keep them clear from weeds •, and when the 
feeds begin to be formed, you fhould cut' up thofe 
that are intended to be put into the pickle for Cucum- 
bers, leaving thofe that are intended for the ufe of 
the feeds until they are ripe j at which time it fhould 
be cut, and fpread upon a cloth to dry, and then 
beat out tor ufe : if you let the feeds fall upon the 
ground, the plants will rife the next fpring without 
any care, fo that the trouble of fowing their feeds may- 
be fpared. 
ANGELICA [of Angeliis , fo called, as fome quacks, 
&c. pretend, from the angels, on account of its ex- 
cellent qualities.] 
The Characters are, 
It is an umbelliferous plant , the greater umbel being com- 
pofed of many fmall ones ; the involucrum , cr cover of the 
large umbel? is compofed of five fmall leaves, and thofe of 
the fmdler _ of eighty and the empalement of the flowers 
are indented in five parts. The flowers of the whole um- 
bel are uniform , each of them conjifi of five petals which 
fall away j thefe have five ftamina , which arc longer than 
the petals? and are crowned with Jingle fummits. ' The 
germen- 
