NATURAL HISTORY. 242 
- ANEMONE. 
"Tuts beautiful flower, with proper culture, will 
blow twice a year; and thus continue to grace our 
gardens, when they are abandoned by all the reft of 
the flowering tribe. Their colours are chiefly red, 
blue and purple. The root of thefe plants fhould be 
taken out of the ground, and preferved, like thofe of 
the ranunculus. They grow beft in a fandy foil. 
When the feeds-crack, or fhew their down, they 
fhould be gathered, to prevent their being difperfed 
by the wind. From thefe feeds, innumerable varie- 
ties may be raifed: And if they are fownin Febru. 
ary, and lightly covered with earth, they will blow 
the fecond year after fowing. 
—soseTEMS MPH — 
LILY. 
me 
Puts'tower is‘a great ornament to a garden. The 
noble height. of its ftem, and the fimple grandeur of 
the flower, render it a moft delightful {pectacle to 
thofe who have the leaft tafte for the beauteous pra- 
duétions of nature. ~The lily is too well: known, and 
admired, to require any particular defcription of its 
form or colour. The culture requires no curious 
rules, from its being eafily reared in any foil ; And, 
as if nature meant.this charming flower fliould be en- 
joyed by the poor as well as the rich, we find it thrives 
with the leaft attention... Such is the beauty of the 
lily, that many European noblemen place, them in 
pots, in order to decorate the avenues to their fump- 
tugus- palaces, ae i ee 
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