COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. 
; April 1. 
I them unnecessarily, as they are very brittle. The 
smallest pieces containing a bucl should be saved, as 
they will bloom in a second year. By dividing the 
roots shortly after they are taken up the wounds are 
healed and hardened before planting time. As soon as 
the foliage withers all the best kinds should be raised. 
1 have seen such hardy kinds as the Scarlet Turban left 
in the ground for years, but they deteriorate in the 
' process. Even the best single varieties, though living 
many years in a dry, sandy loam, maintain their vigour 
, better when raised as the foliage decays, and kept at 
rest during the hot summer months. 
Situation and Soil. —The name of Wind-flower (from 
anemos, the wind), tells us that the situation should be 
i exposed and dry. Low, damp places, and stiff soils ro- 
: tentive of moisture, are alike their aversion and bane. 
A light, loamy, dry-bottomed soil, and moderately en- 
riched with organic matter thoroughly decomposed, be¬ 
ing secured, there is no occasion to ransack fields or 
brains for a suitable compost. A light, loamy border, ; 
that would grow early Potatoes in perfection, would not 
j be disliked by the Anemone. Where the position is na- 
! turally wet, it must be made dry by drainage, and the 
beds may be left more elevated. If the soil should be 
j very sandy, add loam to give it more consistence. If too 
i stiff, add sandy loam, or remove it, and fill in with suit- . 
j able soil. If too poor, add thoroughly-rotted leaf-mould. 
1 No manure, at all rank, should be within fifteen inches 
of the roots. In making up a new bed, cow-dung, a year 
old, three inches thick, may be placed from fifteen to 
eighteen iuehes from the surface. All plants like fresh 
soil; and, where it is necessary to make a bed, sandy 
loam from a pasture, or the highway-side, turned fre¬ 
quently over for a twelvemonth, and incorporated with 1 
a fourth part of leaf-mould, will answer admirably, with 
a layer of cow-dung at the depth specified. As above 
remarked, however, free-working, dry, moderately rich 
kitchen or flower-garden soil will grow the Anemone to 
perfection, if the bed be changed every year. 
Time of Planting. —The last week in September and 
the first and second week in October may be considered 
the best time for the general crop of double Anemones, ; 
as the flowers are generally finer and the roots stronger 
than when planted earlier or later. These will come into 
bloom by the middle and end of April. As they will be 
above the ground before the frost comes, they will want 
little or nothing in the way of protection in winter. 
Another bed, planted in the middle of November, would 
come into bloom a fortnight later, but they will demand 
more care; as wet and frosty weather may quickly suc¬ 
ceed each other after planting ; and in such circum¬ 
stances, the tubers, when surcharged with moisture, and 
not vegetated, are apt to be injured by frost and mould¬ 
iness ; so that the beds would require to be protected from 
frost until the foliage appeared, but uncovered always 
as soon as the frost was gone. A third planting may 
take place in the middle of February or the beginning 
of March, which would prolong the blooming season 
well on to July; and for this planting, as exposed to 
fewer casualties, I would reserve tit bits of great favou¬ 
rites until they gained strength. 
In the case of single Anemones, for beds and 
borders, they may be planted monthly, from the begin¬ 
ning of September to the beginning of April; and, if 
the winter is mild, flowers may be culled from January j 
to August. 
Mode of Planting. —This matters little, provided the • 
soil is well worked and aired, and in a nice, dry condition, 
and so regularly consolidated that it will not sink un¬ 
equally, and provided tho roots are not covered more i 
than from one-and-a-half to two inches in depth. ’The 
bed form is tho most useful, and three-and-a-half-feet 
wide is very handy for attending to the plants, covering, 
&c. In a series of beds the alleys should be eighteen 
inches or two feet wide, to admit of plenty of room. 
The beds should be elevated two or three inches above 
the alley—more, if there is the least danger of stagnant 
moisture. If the beds aro edged with slates, or tiles, or 
boards let into the ground, it will add to the neatness, 
and keep the outside of the beds more uniform as 
respects moisture. In the absence of these, when the 
bed is planted the outsides should be made up level, 
rather firmly patted down, and then cut off straight 
with a line and spade, keeping a stiff wrist, so as to beat 
the side firmly while cutting it. In such a bed, three- 
and-a-half feet wide, after allowing about six inches on 
each side, you will have six or seven rows, accordingly as 
you place them, six or five inches apart. If drills are 
drawn two inches deep, and the roots placed live inches 
apart in the row, the fine earth levelled over them, and 
the bed neatly raked, the work is done. By this drill 
system, I have seen the covering very irregular when 
done by unpracticed hands, and the plants suffered in 
consequence. The following is the plau adopted in my 
apprentice days, and which I would recommend to be¬ 
ginners with their first Anemone bed :—When the bed 
is in a finely-pulverised state lift olf about two inches 
in depth of the surface soil, and lay it down in little 
heaps in the alleys. Level the bed again, rake it, and 
slightly pat it to make it smooth. Then leave marks 
for the longitudinal rows, five inches apart, by pressing 
or drawing the rod, or line, along the bed. Proceed in 
the same manner across the bed, und you will leave a 
chess board-like bed, cut up into squares of five inches. 
In the angles place the tubers, with a pinch’of sand 
around them. By this mode it is best to plant across 
for named kinds, beginning at the nearest end, and 
placing the tally before the root, or roots, until all are 
inserted, seeing that they all read and proceed from the 
same side. For instance, you have angles across for 
six tubers, but you have only five of the sort you com¬ 
menced with, and only four of the next you intend plant¬ 
ing. We will place the five, and then insert the tally 
for No. 2, and place one tuber to fill out the row; come 
back to the next row, and place the other three without 
any tally, and thus there can be no mistake. I have 
had endless trouble with men who sometimes would put 
a tally in when they commenced a row, and putting it 
in at another time when they finished a kind. Nur¬ 
serymen get into all sorts of scrapes and confusion 
by such waywardness. The mode of placing tallies 
ought to be fixed as unalterably as the laws of the 
Medes and Persians. When all are placed, take six 
little pins, or twigs, place one at each of the four corners 
of the bed, and two on the opposite sides in the middle. 
Leave these above ground two inches in height. Place 
the earth taken off gently on to the height of the pins, 
pat gently, then rake, cut the sides of the bed, and the 
work is done in less time than I have described it in. 
General Treatment. —1 have said those planted in 
November might want protection; those planted early 
will need none until the flower-stems begin to show. 
Then, if no more convenient mode exists, the beds 
must be hooped, or arched, and protected with mats, or 
oil cloth, to keep off hard frost and heavy rains. Before 
that period, and also then, the plants will be benefited 
by having the soil firmed round them by the hand. 
Any hollows, thus caused, may be supplied with fresh 
loam, containing a good portion of rotten leaf-mould, or 
exhausted hotbed manure, as a top-dressing, and which 
will also prevent cracks in hot, dry weather. When in 
bloom, in April and May, the same coveriug must be 
given in wet and very windy weather, leaving, however, 
free admission of air. In dry weather, frequent waterings 
will be wanted as the flowers approach maturity. As soon 
as the foliage begins to decay, the drier the bed is kept 
tho better. When the foliage is yellow the roots should 
be curefully raised. If there are many kinds in a bed, 
