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grower  unless  on  the  very  lightest  and  sandiest  soils,  or  in  a  particularly 
favourable  situation.  Where  the  locality  is  damp  and  the  soil  clayey, 
success  is  almost  impossible,  and  even  if  they  grow  they  must  be  lifted 
when  they  have  flowered,  submitted  to  a  process  of  roasting,  stored  away 
indeed,  the  situations  worst  suited  to  A.  coronaria  and  A.  fulgens  are 
just  the  places  in  which  the  others  thrive  best ;  the  cooler  and  more 
shady,  provided  the  drainage  be  good,  the  better  will  they  grow  and 
flower. 
Fig.  47.— ANEMONE  FOLYANTHES. 
for  a  time,  and  then  replanted,  all  of  which  entails  a  large  amount  of 
labour,  the  more  so  grown  in  quantity,  hardly  to  be  tolerated  in  the 
average  garden,  especially  at  so  busy  a  season  of  the  year.  Some  of  the 
Himalayan  species  are  just  as  brightly  coloured  as  the  European  sorts, 
besides  having  the  advantage  of  being  perfectly  hardy  in  all  situations, ; 
A  handsome  plant  is  Anemone  polyanthes  (fig.  47),  and  which  has 
been  generally  distributed  under  tbe  name  A.  obtusiloba  ;  that  differing 
however,  from  A.  polyanthes  in  having  oblong  unwinged  fruit,  fewer- 
flowered  scapes,  and  having  purplish  or  golden  instead  of  white  flowers. 
A.  polyanthes, grows  about  a  foot  to  18  inches  in  height,  with  a  wealth  of 
