ANEMONE HORTEN'SIS. 
GARDEN, OR STAR ANEMONE. 
Class. Or det\ 
POLYANDRIA. POLYGYNI A. 
Natural Order. 
RANONCULACFAJ . 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Cultivated 
Italy. 
1 foot. 
April. 
Perennial. 
in 1597. 
No. 191. 
The word Anemone is deduced from the Greek 
anemos, which signifies wind; but although se- 
veral reasons have been assigned, still it is not 
certain why it was first applied to this family of 
plants ; see No. 145. Hortus, a garden ; hortensis, 
growing in, or pertaining to, a garden. 
The different single-flowered species and vari- 
eties belonging to this family, excepting the Poppy 
Anemone, are not much in cultivation. They seem 
to be superseded by the innumerable double- 
flowered varieties which are annually imported 
from the continent. 
The present plant is desirable both for its gay 
flowers and its hardy habit ; and also, like most 
other of the same genus, for the period at which it 
flowers ; a period which presents occasional blanks 
in Flora’s page, notwithstanding the brilliancy it 
displayed but two or three weeks earlier, when vari- 
eties of the crocus, hepatica, scilla, and narcissus, 
shone forth with vernal splendour. 
A fresh light loamy soil is the most suitable ; 
and the tubers may be divided at any time whilst 
vegetation is dormant. 
Hurt. Kew. 2, v 3, 338. 
