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ANEMONE JAPONICA VAR. HYBRIDA. 
ANEMONE JAPONICA, vae. hybkida. 
Nat. Ordei'j K-ANiraCULACEiE, \ ANEMONEiE. 
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Generic Chakacter. — Involucre, of tliree variously-cut leaves, 
distant fi-om the flower. Calyx of five or mauy petal-like 
c oloured sepals, imbricate in iEstivation. Pefff/s wanting. Sta- 
mens indefinite, all fertile, or the outer sterile, glaud-lil^e. 
Ovaries many, free, unilocular. Ovule solitary, pendulou-s. 
Achcnla many, unarmed, or tipped with the bearded plumose 
styles. Seed inverted. 
A. JMONICA.— Zkcc. 4- Sic&o7rf.— Japanese Anemone.— Cau- 
lescent ; radical and cauUne leaves ternately cut, segments 
cordate tluee-lobed and irregularly doubly serrate ; involucral 
leaves stalked, wedge-shaped at the base and resembling the 
rest ; upper leaves sessile ; peduncles elongated, or naked, one- 
flowered, or forked-branehed and again furnished with in- 
volucres ; sepals more than twenty, sUky on the outside, oblong 
obtuse iilaited, the outer ones greenish at the back so as 
to resemble a distinct calyx. Aehenia unarmed, densely 
villous. 
A, japonica, var. Jii/brida, — Radical leaves palmate five-lobed, 
somewhat heart-shaped at the base : lobes twice serrate ; sepals 
broader, somewhat concave ; flowers paler. 
BESCKIPTION. — A very fine, hardy, autumn-blooming, perennial herb. Stems slightly 
clothed with short hairs, growing about two feet high, dividing near the middle into 
branches, the central one bearing a single flower, the lateral, each terminated by a small 
cluster. Radical leaves on long stallts, palmate, five-lobed, and twice serrated ; those of 
the stem, three-lobed, smaller, with .short broad stalks. Flowers numerous, large, nearly thi-ee 
inches in diameter, composed of numerous obovate, concave sepals, a delicate pink, or pale 
rose-colour, broader, and more regular in form than those of the Japanese Anemone. 
HisiOKT, &;c. — A hybrid variety of the Japanese Anemone, raised between that species 
and the white Indian A. vitifolia, a species having a somewhat similar habit of growth, but 
with smaller, cup-shaped blossoms of considerable beauty, and five-seven-lobed, rormdish, 
heart-shaped radical leaves. The resiilt of the cross has been to infuse some of the form and 
proportions of the Indian into the larger Japanese species, at the expense of its colour. The 
hybrid is, nevertheless, a very showy and highly desirable plant, with delicate pink, or pale 
rose-coloured flowers. Like the species, it is an autumn bloomer, and exceedingly well 
adapted for autumn-beds in the flower-garden. It was raised in the garden of the Horticul- 
tm-al Society at Chiswick. 
CuLiUEE. — A hardy perennial, growing freely in the open border, in rich loamy soil, if 
kept moist at the root at all seasons. It may also be very appropriately grown in pots, for 
the decoration of the greenhouse or conservatory, during the autumn, before the Chrysanthe- 
mums come into flower. For pot-cultm-e the plants should be divided annually in spring, before 
they commence growing ; the wire-like roots being cut into portions of an inch in length, 
planted a quarter of an inch deep in pans or pots fiUed with a light, rich compost of sandy loam peat 
and cow-dung, and placed in a moist frame, with gentle heat. By the beginning of May they 
will be large enough to be re-potted singly into three-inch pots, in the same kind of soil ; they 
should be retiu-ned to the fi-ame until established, when they may be removed to a cold frame, 
and thence to a shady situation out of doors. About the end of Jime, select the strongest plants, 
and put about haK-a-dozen into a twelve-inch pot of rich soil ; place them in a shaded situation, 
giving them plenty of water. By the middle of August, remove them to the greenhouse or 
conservatory, to blossom. 
For the flower-garden, the old plants should be divided about the end of March, planted 
out in May into rich loamy soil, and well supplied with water during summer. Beyond this, 
they require only to be divided and re-planted once in two or three years, without which 
removal they are apt to become weakly in their gi'ow1;h. 
The name of the genus Anemone, or wind-flower, is derived from the Greek anemos, 
wind ; and the plants are said to have been so named from an old opinion that they never 
blossomed, except when the wind blew : they do mostly blow in windy seasons, and many are 
found to grow natiu-aUy in exposed and elevated situations. 
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