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XCV. Regate, the whole, both Leaves and 
Thrum, are a well mark’d Flower with Crimfon 
and White. 
XCVL Saint Charles , the Leaves are of art ill 
or poor white, with red bottoms. Scala, its Leaves 
are alfo of a dirty white, and its Thrum Scarlet. 
Sermonetta, the whole Flower is all Scarlet and a 
pale yellow. Scirien , its Leaves are a pale lfabel- 
la , clouded with Blufti or Flefh color, and the 
Thrum is a light Green fo clouded. 
XCVII. ToJ'cana -, The whole Flower is of a 
faded Red, iometimes mixed with a little Hair 
color. Torquoije The whole Flower, both its 
Leaves and Thrum are White, but the bottoms of 
the Leaves are Carnation. 
XCVIIL Valerius j Its Leaves are of a Blufti or 
Flefti color mixt with Carnation * and its Thrum 
Hair color and Carnation. Thefe Anemones , with 
many orhers not here named, are all fine Narrow 
Leav'd Double Flowers, notably differing from each 
other, and thrive very well in our Gardens. 
Befides all thefe, many more Varieties may be 
produced by the Sowing the Seed of fome of the 
bell Single ones, not poftible to be accounted for, 
of which any one may make Tryals at pleafure •, 
what we have further to do, is to (hew the manner 
and way of Sowing and Planting them, and the 
managing and ordering them to the belt advantage. 
^CULTURE 
I. Of the F repaving the Earth. 
XCIX. In the managing of the rarer forts of 
rhefe Beautiful Flow'ers, very great Care is to be 
taken, that the Soil or Earth, Scituation or Place, 
Time or Seafon, and the way and manner of their 
Planting and taking up , be exaflly obferved * 
otherwife your Flowers will neither be fair, nor 
the Roots profper and increafe, but rather rot and 
confume away ^ efpecially all the beft Double Kinds 
of the Tenui folia's the ordinary Flowers, and 
Single Flower’d, are more hardy. 
C. The Soil is then firft to be confidered, which 
mult be Fat and Rich, and not too light * a Rich 
Sandy Loam Earth is Paid to be beft, in which 
fome Neats and Sheeps Dung, with a little Lime 
has been tempered, and lain long on a heap, and 
often turn’d over, to that the Dung be fully rotted, 
and well mixed with the Earth which being firft 
Sifted thro’ a Wier Sieve or Skreen, you may 
then make a Bed thereof half a Yard deep at leatt, 
in fome place which is not in too hot a Sun, but a 
little ftiadowed. 
Cl. Or, make five equal Heaps of yellow Sand, 
three others as large of Kitchen Garden Earth, and 
four others of Bed - Mould well mellowed * then 
mix them altogether with a Shovel ^ make as much 
of this Earth as you fhall haveoccafion for, which 
let be a Year old before you ufe it ; during which 
time, pafs it once every Month thro’ a Skreen, 
that it may thereby be throughly mixed and per- 
fefted, left its too Subtil parts (which might hurt 
the Beauty of your Flowers) (hould be retained, 
which by this means will in fome meafure vanifh. 
CII. But if you cannot well ftay fo long as a 
Year for the well fitting your Earth or Mould, you 
may then provide the Earth as in the former Setti- 
on, and after a Months time ufe it for the firft 
time * but then you ought always to have a good 
quantity more of it in referve, ready prepared as 
aforefaid, a Year before hand. The more this 
Earth pafles thro’ the Skreen, the lighter it will be, 
and more agreeable to the Nature of Anemones. 
CIII. Before this Artificial or made Earth be 
laid upon the Natural Soil of your Garden, the 
Ground ought to be before-hand prepared. If the 
Earth of your Garden be naturally light and fandy, 
or Gravelly, you need do no more but dig it up, 
and cover it about half a Foot thick with this your 
Artificial Mould j but if your Garden Ground is 
Wet or Moift, (both which are Inimical to thefe 
Flowers) you muft dig the Bed you defign for thefe 
Flowers, and take out about a Foot and half deep 
of the Earth, and then fill up the hollow Capacity 
thereof, with a Compound of half Sand and half 
Artificial Mould ^ in which you fhall Plant yout 
Anemones as fhall anon be direfled. 
CIV. Inftead of Mould, you may make yout 
Beds of rotten Herbs, Leaves and the like, which 
mixed as is before direfled, and part feveral times 
thro’ the Skreen, will make a Compofi or Earth, as 
fit for Anemones as can be defired $ which you may 
lay upon your Compartments or Beds, after it has 
been well Sifted or Skreen’d. 
II. Of the Times of Planting of 
ANEMONES . 
CV. The beft Seafon for Planting Anemones, is 
from the middle of September to the middle of 
OQober but if you have a mind to have them in 
Flower a great part of the Year, you muft Plant 
them in March and April, but you are not to ex- 
pe£l fuch fair Produ&ions from thefe laft as 
from the firft , where the Sap has had a prima- 
ry advantage. % 
CVI. And this feems to be Rarkinfon' s Secret, 
to teach us how we may fo order Anemones , that 
after all others are commonly paft, we may have 
them in Flower for 2 or 3 Months longer than they 
are otherwife to be feen. The ordinary time (fays 
he) to Plant Anemones, is in Augufi, which will 
have Flowers, fome per chance before Winter, but 
molt commonly in February, March and April, 
few or none of them abiding until May • but if you 
will keep fome Roots out of the Ground unplanted, 
until February , March and April, Planting fome 
at one time, fome at another, you will have them 
bear Flowers according to their Planting. 
CVII. Thofe (fays he) which you Plant in Fe- 
bruary, will Flower about the middle or end of 
May, and fo the reft accordingly after that manner. 
And thus you may have the pleafure of thofe Plants 
out of their Natural Seafons, which is not permit- 
ted to be enjoyed in any other Flower that 1 know 
of ^ Nature being not fo prone to be furthered by 
Art in other Plants as in this. 
CVIII. But this is to be obferved, that when you 
keep your Roots out of the Ground for this pur- 
pole, that you muft be very careful in laying them 
up and preserving them-, that you keep them nei- 
ther too dry nor too moift, that they may neither 
fprout nor rott j and then in Planting them, that 
you fet them not in too open or Sunny a Place, but 
where they may be a little ftiadowed. 
CIX. The Latif olia's are generally Planted ear- 
lieft or firft, as in Auguft and in September. The 
Angufhf olia's or Tenuifolia's , are ever Planted af- 
ter them, later in the Year, being kept out of the 
Ground (in fome proper dry place) till the end of 
Otfober , and the Purples a Month longer, and then 
fet in the fame manner as the others. The Lati- 
f olid's or Broad Leav’d, will come up before Win- 
ter. The Anguflifolia's or Tenuifolia% the Nar 
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