RAKUN'CULUS ASIAT'ICUS. 
ASIATIC CROWFOOT. 
Order. 
POLYGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ranunculace^e. 
Class. 
POLYANDRIA. 
Garden 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 1 Raised 
Variety. 
1 foot. 
July. 
Perennial. | in 1847. 
No. 1197. 
Under No. 271 we have given, at some length, the 
derivation of the word Ranunculus. 
No garden operation has been more unsatisfactory 
to the generality of amateurs, than the cultivation of 
the Ranunculus; hence has arisen a pretty general 
idea of difficulty, attending it; and, consequently, 
its growth has been confined to a limited number of 
persons— a few who knew the secret. It is quite 
true, that to flower such roots as are usually pur- 
chased, is a task to which none can promise that 
they are competent. It often happens that an ex- 
pensive collection is planted, with every requisite 
precaution, and perhaps not more than a fourth part 
will blossom, another fourth part will die, and the 
major part of the remaining half vegetate miserably 
preparatory to their final departure in the following 
season. A second year's disappointment generally 
exhausts the cultivator's patience, and he gives up 
tlic Ranunculus in despair. 
It is, doubtless, a fact, that the perfection of beauty 
which is sought by the florist, is never found in com- 
bination with the unpampered habit of the wild 
plant. It is obtained by perpetuating the most deli- 
