304 NATURAL HISTORY. 
ANEMONE. 
‘T 
JL HIS beautiful flower, with proper cul- 
ture, will blow twice a year ; and thus con- 
tinue to grace our gardens, when they are 
abandoned by all the reft of the flowering 
tribe. Their colours are chiefly red, blue, 
and purple. The root ofthefe plants fhould 
be taken out of the ground, and preferved 
like thofe of the ranunculus. They grow 
belt in a fandy foil. 
When the feeds crack, or fliew their down, 
they fliould be gathered, to prevent their be- 
ing difperfed by the wind. From thefe feeds, 
innumerable varieties may be raifed : and if 
they are fown in February, and lightly co- 
vered with earth, they will blow the fecond 
year alter fowing. 
LILY. 
T 
i. HIS flower is a great ornament to a gar- 
den. '1 he noble height of its Hem, and the 
limple grandeur ofthe flow'er, render it a moll 
il-’lightful f[)eblac!e to thofe who have the 
kail tafte for the beauteous produ«flions of 
nature. The lily Is too well knowm, and 
admired, to require any particular defcriptioii 
of its lorm or colour. '1 he cultiirc requires 
no 
