THE ANEMONE. 
“ Anemone is derived from the Greek 
anemos, wind ; as Gerarde says after Pliny, 
because ‘ the flower doth never open itself 
but when the wind doth blow.’ As this is not 
quite correct, at least with the anemone of our 
day, the appellation is supposed to have arisen 
from the plant flourishing in exposed and 
windy situations. 
“ The ancient fabulists ascribe to this 
flower a very high birth. They tell us that 
Venus in her grief for the death of Adonis, 
mingled her tears with his blood, and that 
thence sprung the first Anemone. 
The Anemones are natives of the East, 
whence their roots were originally brought; 
but they have been so much improved by 
culture, as to take a high rank among the or¬ 
naments of our gardens in the spring. 
“ The Anemones are generally divided 
into two distinct families by the florists, under 
the names of Coronaria and Hortensis. The 
latter expands its six petals in the form of a 
star, and hence is called the star Anemone. 
This species justly ranks amongst the most 
elegant as well as the most showy of our early 
flowers. 
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