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the return of winter, and even then an occasional one more 
precocious than his fellows, may be found thrusting its radiated 
corolla from beneath “bleak winter’s mantle, snow.” The 
Anemone for the most part is a native of the more elevated parts 
of the Continent, in Siberia, Switzerland, Germany ; and in the 
northern parts of the continent of America, several species have 
been found ; three or four are natives of Britain—A. Pulsatilla, 
and A. nemorosa; the wood anemone are indigenous and have 
long been favorite inhabitants of our borders ; A. hortensis is 
also well known, though far inferior to the species from which 
we have selected our drawings ; A. coronaria, which is a native of 
the Levant. There are in all about twenty-seven or twenty-eight 
species of Anemones : A. coronaria, the subject of this paper may 
be divided into two classes, the single or poppy anemone, and 
the double, which is properly a variety or improvement on the 
first, being obtained from seed of the single varieties, the economy 
of this part of the wonders of the vegetable world being now 
pretty generally understood to be the transformation of the 
stamens of the single flower into petals which form the interior 
part of the double flower : we shall not occupy more space on 
the subject, but proceed at once to the general management of 
this beautiful flower. 
The soil preferred by the Anemone is a rather light sandy 
loam ; though in this as in every other point it is very ductile, 
and may be made to grow on almost any soil, so that it is 
fresh, for this, as with other plants, will degenerate if grown 
too long on the same spot of ground. About a fortnight or three 
weeks before planting, let the ground be well dug over, burying 
a substratum of about three inches in Thickness of cow-dung ; 
this is necessary to secure to the plants a sufficient degree of 
moisture at the period of blooming, the manure must be kept at 
a regular depth of six inches from the surface ; the best method 
of planting is to remove the entire surface of the bed to the 
depth of about two inches or a little more; rake the bottom 
even, and place the roots firmly on it; the larger ones may be 
separated, though it is not advisable to reduce them too much, 
or a weak bloom is the consequence. If it is desired to keep 
the names to the different kinds, and the bed is square, the 
name of the sort and situation in the bed may be entered in a 
book, as is usual with tulips and ranunculus, and if the bed is 
