single state, to the disappointment of the admirers. of double-petaled flowers.

When planted in the open garden, the Jonquil should be placed in clumps of considerable size, as it then makes an agreeable figure both by its rushy foliage and its fine yellow flowers, and its roots are less likely to be cut up or injured than when scattered three or four in a bunch in various parts of the border. As Jonquils and the more tender Narcissuses are liable to be injured by the winds, we recommend that they should be planted in such situations as are sheltered from the west and southwest wind by evergreen shrubs, which will also be found to lengthen the duration of the flowers by shading them from the afternoon sun, and these blossoms will appear to greater advantage when contrasted with the dark foliage of evergreen trees.

The hardier kinds of Narcissuses should also be planted at the edge of ornamental waters, particularly where there are small islands or necks of land running into lakes, for here they will not only contrast well with the blue waters, but will have their beauties reflected in the stream. Keats observes

What first inspired a bard of old to sing
Narcissus pining o'er the untainted spring?
In some delicious ramble he had found
A little space, with boughs all woven round:
And in the midst thereof a clearer pool
Than e'er reflected in its pleasant cool

The blue sky here and there serenely peeping
Through tendril wreaths fantastically creeping.
And on the bank a lonely flower he spied,

A meek and forlorn flower with nought of pride,
Drooping its beauty o'er the watery clearness,
To woo its own sad image into nearness.
Deaf to light Zephyrus, it would not move;
But still would seem to droop, to pine, to love.
So, while the poet stood in this sweet spot,
Some fainter gleamings o'er his fancy shot;
Nor was it long ere he had told the tale
Of young Narcissus and sad Echo's bale.

ANEMONE. Anemone.

Natural Order, Multisiliquæ. Ranunculacea, Juss. A Genus of the Polyandria Polygynia Class.

From the soft wing of vernal breezes shed,
Anemonies.

THOMSON.

That veteran troop who will not for a blast
Of nipping air, like cowards, quit the field.

And coy Anemone, that ne'er uncloses
Her lips until they're blown on by the wind.

MASON.

HOR. SMITH.

THE Greeks named this flower Anemone from "Aveμos, the wind, because it flowers both in a windy season, and in exposed, windy situations.

The ancients made this flower the emblem of sickness. Pliny tells us that the magicians and wise men in old times attributed wonderful powers to this plant, and ordered that every person should gather the first Anemone he saw in the year, repeating at the same time, "I gather thee for a remedy against disease." It was then devoutly placed in scarlet cloth and kept undisturbed, unless the gatherer became indisposed, when it was tied either around the neck or arm of the patient.

Some suppose that the Anemone was made the emblem of sickness, in allusion to the fate of Adonis the favourite of Venus, who changed his body into this flower, after he had been killed by a boar which he had wounded in the chase.

The flying savage, wounded, turn'd again,

Wrench'd out the gory dart, and foam'd with pain.
The trembling boy by flight his safety sought,
And now recall'd the lore which Venus taught.
But now too late to fly the boar he strove,
Who in the groin his tusks impetuous drove :
On the discolour'd grass Adonis lay,

The monster trampling o'er his beauteous prey.

Yet dares not Venus with a change surprise,
And in a flow'r bid her fall'n hero rise!
Then on the blood sweet nectar she bestows,
The scented blood in little bubbles rose :
Little as rain drops, which fluttering fly,
Borne by the winds along a low'ring sky.
Short time ensued, till where the blood was shed
A flow'r began to rear its purple head :
Such as on Punic apples is reveal'd,
Or in the filmy rind but half conceal'd.
Still here the fate of lovely forms we see,
So sudden fades the sweet Anemone.
The feeble stems, to stormy blasts a prey,
Their sickly beauties droop and pine away.
The winds forbid the flow'rs to flourish long,
Which owe to winds their name in Grecian

song. EUSDEN'S Ovid.

It is related by other mythologists, that Adonis was restored to life again by Proserpine, on condition that he should spend one half of the year with her and the other with Venus. This is

thought to imply the alternate return of summer and winter. The festivals of Adonis commenced. with mournful lamentations and finished with joy and gladness, which would seem to indicate a be, lief of his return to life.

In all ages there appears to have been the same love of meeting in large assemblies, no matter for what cause, whether to deplore the fabled death of Adonis, as the ancients did-or, as in modern times, to eat a dinner for the benefit of the Greek cause against the Turks—or to dance a French quadrille at a London theatre by way of stamping a favourable impression on Spanish independence.

The Anemone was held in great estimation by the Romans, who formed it into wreaths for the head; and there is scarcely any flower better calculated to be artificially imitated, for the purpose of ornamenting the temple of Venus; for as its flowers are of such various colours, the Venuses of every tint, from the blackest child of Africa to the fairest daughter of Britain, may suit their complexions by wreaths of Anemonies.

At what period our ancestors first called this plant by the Greek name is uncertain. Turner writes on it by that appellation in 1568, and observes that "it maye be called in English Rose persely, because there groweth a floure like a single

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