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and there fhould no rain fall for three weeks or a month 
after, they will be very apt to grow mouldy upon the 
crown, and, if they once get this cfidemper, they feldom 
come to good after. You may alfo referve fome of your 
anemone-roots till after Chriftmas, before you plant them, 
leit by the feverity of the winter your early-planted roots 
Ihould be deftroyed; which fometimes happens in very 
hard winters, eipecially where they are not covered to 
protect them from the frod. Thefe late-planted roots 
will flower a fortnight or three weeks after thofe which 
were planted in autumn, and many times blow equally as 
fair, efpecially if it prove a moid fpring, or that care be 
taken to refrefh them gently with water. In the begin- 
nmg of April your tit'll planted roots will begin to flower, 
which will continue for three weeks or more, according 
to the heat of the weather, or the care taken in covering 
them, during the heat of the day, with mats or cloths : 
after thefe are pad flowering, the fecond planted forts 
will come to fucceed them, and thefe will be followed by 
thofe planted in the fpring; fo that you may have thefe 
beauties continued for near two months together, or lome- 
times longer, if the feafon prove favourable, or proper 
care be taken to lhade them in the heat of the day. The 
beginning of June, the leaves of your fir ft blown roots 
will begin to decay; foon after which time you mult take 
them out of the ground, clearing them from decayed (talks, 
and walking them, to take the earth clean from tire root; 
then fpread them on a mat in a dry fliady place till they 
are perfectly dried, when you may put them up in bags, 
and hang them out of the reach of mice, or other vermin, 
which will detlroy many of the roots if they can come at 
them. Obferve alfo to take lip the latter planted roots as 
foon as their leaves decay; for if they are fuffered to re¬ 
main long after in the ground, and there fhould fall fome 
fhowers of rain, they would foon put forth fie fir fibres, 
and make new fnoots, when it would be too late to remove 
them. At the time when you take up the roots, is the 
proper feafon for breaking or parting them, which may be 
done by feparating thofe that you would choofe to make 
all poflible increale from, into as many parts as you can 
conveniently, provided each one of them has a good eye 
or bud; but, thofe you intend to blow ttrong, fhould by 
no means be parted too final 1, which greatly weakens 
their flowering. You Ihould obferve, in planting the 
roots, to didribute the different colours, fo as to make an 
agreeable mixture of each in every bed, which will greatly 
add to their beamy. 
Anemone Pusilla,/ in botany. See Dryas. 
Srffl- Anemone. See Animal-flower. 
ANEMONO'IDES,/ in botany. See Anemone.^ 
ANEMONOSPER'MOS, /. in botany. See Arcto- 
tis and Gorteria. 
ANE'MOSCOPE,/. [of the wind, and 
Gr. to view.] A machine invented to foretell the changes 
of the wind, or weather; and fometimes for an indru- 
ment fhewing by an index what the prefent direction or 
courfe of the wind is. Of this latter fort was that ufed 
by the ancients, and defcribed by Vitruvius; and we have 
many of them at prefent in large or public buildings, 
where an index withinfide a room or hall points to the 
name of the quarter from whence the wind blows with¬ 
out; which is limply effected by connecting an index to 
the lower end of the fpindle of a weather-cock. Of this 
kind is the anemofcope in one of the turrets of the Queen’s 
Palace, in St. James’s Park. But the bed: machine for 
fhewing the courfe and velocity of the wind, was invented 
by the late Mr. Pickering, and publifhed in the Philofo- 
phical Tranfadtions, No. 473. His anemofcope is four 
feet and a quarter high, confiding of a broad and weighty 
pededal, a pillar fattened into it, and an iron axis of 
about half an inch diameter fadencd into the pillar. Up¬ 
on this axis turns a wooden lube; at the top of which 
is placed a vane, of the fame materials, twenty-one inch¬ 
es long, confiding of a quadrant, graduated, and fhod 
with an iron rim, notched to each degree; and a counter- 
poife of wood, as in the figure, on the other. Through 
the centre of the quadrant runs an iron pin, upon which 
are fattened two fmall round pieces of wood, which ferve 
as moveable radii to defcribe the degrees upon the qua¬ 
drant, and as handles to a velum or fail, v/hofe pane is 
one foot fquare, made 
of canvas, dretched up¬ 
on four battens, and 
painted. On the upper 
batten, next to the diod 
rim of the quadrant, is 
a fmall fpring which 
catches at every notch 
correfponding to each 
degree, as the wind 
diall, by prefling againfl 
the fad, raife it up; and 
prevents the falling back 
of the fail, upon lef- 
fening of the force of 
the wind. At the bot¬ 
tom of the wooden tube 
is an iron index, which 
moves round a circular 
piece of wood fattened 
to the top of the pillar 
on the pededal, on which 
are defcribed the 32 
points of the compafs. 
In the above figure of this machine, a is the pededal; b, 
the pillar on which the iron axis is fitted; c, the circle of 
wood, on which are defcribed the thirty-two points of the 
compafs; e, the wooden tube upon its axis ; f, the velum ; 
g, the graduated quadrant; k, the counterpoife ol the 
vane. The adjoining figure reprefents the velum, which 
takes od': a is the plane of the velum; b, the fpring; c, 
the wooden radii; dd, the holes through which the pin in 
the centre of the quadrant goes. Its ufes are the follow¬ 
ing: 1. Having a circular motion round the iron axis, and 
being furniflied with a vane at top, and index at the bot¬ 
tom, when once you have fixed the artificial cardinal 
points, defcribed on the round piece of wood on the pil¬ 
lar, to the fame quarters of the heavens, it gives a faith¬ 
ful account of that quarter from which the wind blows. 
2. By having a velum or fail elevated by the wind along 
the arch of the quadrant to an height proportionable to 
the power of the column of wind prefiing againd it, the 
relative force of the wind, and its comparative power, at 
any two times of examination, may be accurately taken. 
3. By having a fpring fitted to the notches of the iron 
with which the quadrant is fiiod, the velum is prevented 
from returning back upon the fall of the wind; and the 
machine gives the force to the higheft biad, iince the lad 
time of examination, without the trouble of watching it. 
ANE'NT, prep, [a word ufed in the Scotch dialeft.] 
Concerning; about; as, He faid nothing anent this parti¬ 
cular. Over againd; oppofiteto; as, He lives anent the 
market-houfe. 
ANES or Awns,/. The (hires or beards of corn. 
ANETHIFO'LIUS,/ in botany. See Protea. 
ANE'THUM,/ [avsS 0 v, Gr. from its running up quick 
or ftraight.] In botany, a genus of the pentandria digynia 
clafs, ranking in the natural order of umbellatas, or urn- 
belliferte. The generic characters are—Calyx: umbel 
univerfal and partial manifold; involucre, neitheruniver- 
fal nor partial; perianthium proper oblolete. Corolla: 
univerfal uniform; flofcules all fertile, proper; petals 
five, involute, entire, very fiiort. Stamina: filaments ca¬ 
pillary; antherae roundidi. Pidillum: germ inferior; 
dyles approximating, oMolete ; (ligmas obtufe. Pericar- 
pium : rone; fruit fubovate, cqmprefled, driated, bipar- 
tile. Seeds: two; fubovate, margined, convex, and dri¬ 
ated on one fide, flat on the other. — EJfenlial Charatder. 
Fruit fubovate, compreffcd, driated; petals involuted 
entire. 
Spirit 
