Our present limits will not admit an extended de- 
tail of the mode of culture, practised by professional 
florists, for raising those peculiar beauties of fancy, 
known as prize flowers; but, at a future period, a 
portrait of a high-titled prize beauty shall be taken, 
and the subject treated accordingly. 
The downy seed of Poppy Anemones should be 
first divided, by being rubbed amongst sand. It is 
usually directed to be sown in August, but to avoid 
the requisite trouble of winter protection, we prefer 
sowing it at the end of February. This may be 
done in boxes or pots of rich light soil, which should 
be immediately placed within the frame of a mode- 
rately warm cucumber bed, there to remain at least 
three months. They may afterwards be removed to 
a cool situation, and require to be carefully freed 
from weeds, as the plants will remain exceedingly 
small during the first three or four months of their 
growth. The soil should be kept tolerably damp from 
the time of sowing ; and when the plants attain half 
an inch in height they will begin to grow more freely. 
In September, the little tuberous roots should be 
transplanted into beds of light rich loamy soil, mode- 
rately dry, having an open situation, and a free blos- 
som may be expected very early in the spring, and 
some will be produced even in the depth of winter. 
Pure air is indispensable. Having failed in pro- 
curing a good blossom in a town garden, we planted 
roots in pots in a more pure air, and when in heal- 
thy flower, removed them into a town atmosphere, 
but their luxuriance quickly declined. 
When the leaves die, the roots may be taken up, 
and be replanted in September. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 338. 
