Junk 3. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
WEEKLY CALENDAR. 
. .-■ r -ja.-r. ' yv.L, 
113 
M 
W 
JUNE 3—9, 1852. 
Weather near London in 1851. 
Sun 
Sun 
Moon 
Moon’s 
Clock 
Day of 
Barometer. jThermo. 
Wind. 
Rain in In. 
Rises. 
Sets. 
It. & s. 
Age. 
bef. Sun. 
Year. 
3 Th 
Spearwort flower*. 
1 
29 879 — 29.672 74—39 
S.W. 
08 
48 a. 3 
7 a. 8 
9a46 
15 
2 9 
155 
4 F 
Lady’s Finger flowers. 
29-904 — 29 .819 66—36 
N.W. 
01 
48 
8 
10 44 
16 
l 59 
156 
5 S 
King of Hanover, b. 1771. 
29.833 — 29.773 62—45 
S.W. 
14 
47 
9 
11 29 
17 
1 49 
157 
6 Son 
Trinity Sunday. 
29.950 — 29 . 622 ! 61—52 
S.W. 
47 
10 
18 
1 38 
158 
7 M 
Vine flowers. 
29 . 965 — 29.937 66—53 
S.W. 
01 
46 
11 
ft 2 
19 
1 27 
159 
8 Td 
Purple-spotted Martagon flowers. 
29.960 — 29.936 71—56 
S.W. 
46 
12 
0 30 
20 
1 16 
9 W 
Bryony flowers. 
29.963 — 29 .55l| 61—48 
S.E. 
02 
45 
13 
0 51 
e 
1 5 
161 
in 1837. During the period 102 days were fine, and on 73 rain fell. 
BRITISH WILD FLOWERS. 
CROWFOOTS—RANUNCULACEiE. 
ANEMONE. WIND FLOWER. 
( Continued from paye 108.) 
Anemone ranunculoides : Yellow Wood Anemone; Yel¬ 
low Wood Crowfoot; Crowfoot-like Wind-flower. 
Description. —It is a perennial. Boot tuberous, black, 
roundish. Leaves few, often five-leafleted, very dark green. 
Flowers sometimes two on a stem, petals yellow, oval, 
usually five in number (but sometimes six), two alternately 
outer, and two inner, and one having one side within, and 
one side outside the next petal; flower-stalk hairy, short so 
as only just to rise above the involucral leaves , which are 
three in number, nearly stalkless, and deeply cut. Seeds 
roundish, pointed, tailless, but beaked and hairy. 
Time of bloominy. —April. 
Places where found. —In woody places; very rare. Near 
King’s Langley in Hertfordshire, and near Wrotham in 
Kent. 
History .—It has been suspected to have been introduced 
from the Continent of Europe, but never being mentioned 
by any of our earlier authors on gardening, its rarity is no 
argument in favour of that opinion, for there are several 
native plants quite as rare, and as confined to very small 
localities. Even abroad, as is observed by Ray, it rarely 
occurs. He also points out that it is liable to sport, so as to 
have two and even three flowers on a stem. 
Anemone apennina : Mountain Blue Anemone; Large- 
leaved Wood Anemone; Single-purple Wood Crowfoot. 
Description. —It is a perennial. Boot like that of pre¬ 
ceding. Stem round, purplish, but green near the flower, 
about eight inches high, slightly hairy. Boot-leaves on long 
foot-stalks, three-leafleted; leaflets variously cut, somewhat 
pointed, hairy on both sides; one three-leafleted leaf on a 
short foot-stalk sheathing the stem. Flower solitary, pale 
blue, sweet-smelling ; petals spear-head shaped, but some¬ 
times oval, twelve to fifteen, arranged in three rows; invo¬ 
lucre of three leaves, each three-leafleted and deeply cut. 
Seeds pointed and tailless. 
Time of floweriny. —April. 
Places where found. —In groves in midland counties of 
England. Very uncommon. 
History .—Its rarity, and the fact that in Ray’s time the 
Dutch gardeners first obtained it from Italy, have induced 
some botanists to think it not a native of England, but that 
it has escaped from our gardens. Varieties have been found 
with short leaf-stalks, and others with white flowers. The 
Italians call this and some other kinds Wood Ginycr, 
because the roots are tuberous and acrid, like those of the 
true ginger. The plant and the root bruised and applied to 
the skin produce a blister, and have been used to remove 
hard tumours, warts, and corns. 
Many years ago our friend Dr. Wallich published, in 
his edition of Roxburgh’s Flora Indica, an account of a 
very beautiful evergreen-tree, under the title of Cornus 
capitata, or Globe-flowering Dogwood; but it was 
subsequently raised to the dignity of a new genus, and 
| is now known as Benthamia fragifera, or Strawberry- 
| fruited Benthamia. 
It is a large bush in its native wilds of the East 
Indies, but in the southern counties of England it is 
said to have attained the heighth of 20 feet. There it 
is hardy, but it will not stand the winters round London. 
It was first raised here in 1825, in the garden of 
J. H. Tremayne, Esq., of Heligan, St. Austle, Cornwall. 
The seeds were sent there by Sir Anthony Buller, during 
his residence in the East Indies. The plant was 16 feet 
high in the open shrubbery at Heligan, in 1832, when 
it first flowered. In May, 1833, a coloured figure, with 
descriptions of it, appeared in the Botanical Register. 
The name was given by Dr. Lindley, in compliment to 
George Bentham, Esq., then Secretary to the London 
Horticultural Society. 
Benthamia is in the Tetrandria-Monogynia class and 
order of Linnaeus, and belongs to the small order of 
Cornels (Cornaceae), being closely allied to the Cornus 
itself. A good idea of it may be formed by supposing 
Cornus mascula to be covered with the flowers of 
No. CXCII., Vol. VIII. 
