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LADIES’ MAGAZINE OF GARDENING. 
ANEMONE, Bauh. THE ANEMONE, OR WIND-FLOWER. 
Nat. Ord. Ranunculaceae. Lin. Syst. Polyandria Polygynia. 
Generic Character. —Involucre of three cut leaflets, distant from the flower. Calyx of five 
to ten petal-like sepals. Petals wanting.—( G. Don.) 
1.—ANEMONE CERNUA, Thunb. THE DROOPING, OR GOLDEN¬ 
HAIRED ANEMONE. 
Synonymes. —Pulsatilla cernua, Spreng. ; Sjaguma Saiko, Jap. ; Hak-too-woo, Chinese. 
Engravings. —FI. Jap. t. 4 ; and our fig. 1, in Plate 2. 
Specific Character. —The whole plant covered with long, silky hairs. Leaves pinnately 
cut, lower segments on long stalks ; all the segments pinnatifid; lobes cut, linear-oblong. 
Involucre multifid. Flowers drooping ; sepals six, erect, but spreading at the tip, 
elliptical-oblong, acute. 
Description, &c. —This beautiful Anemone is a perennial, well adapted 
for planting on rock work, as in its native country it grows in hot, dry 
situations.exposed to the sun. It is quite hardy as far as regards cold, 
as it is found on mountains two thousand feet above the level of the sea, 
hut it is easily killed by damp. It is from this peculiarity that the plant 
is now very rarely found in British gardens, though it was introduced so 
long since as 1806, and though it is common in France. In Japan, 
Dr. Siebold tells us, it is a favourite garden plant; as the Japanese use 
it for decorating the rocks, which they, like the Chinese, are fond of 
introducing in every kind of garden scenery. The flowers appear in 
spring, in great abundance, and they, as well as the leaves, are very hand¬ 
some. The culture of this plant is very easy ; it only requires to be 
planted in a dry sandy soil, in a situation fully exposed to the sun. 
Light and air are essential to it, and also a dry soil. It is propagated by 
seeds, which it ripens freely; and also by division of the root, if care be 
taken to keep the wounded part from rotting, which it will do if exposed 
to much moisture. 
VOL. i.—NO. II. 
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