GIANT WINTER ANEMONE
NEW INDUSTRY FOR CORNWALL fßv Air Mail-Own Correspondent] LONDON, 10th November. A chance experiment has brought a new and profitable industry to Cornwall. and extended its cut flower season from three to six months. Travelling in France in 1924, Canon Boscawen was so impressed with the beauty of the giant winter anemone that he brought back some seeds of the Du Gaen variety, and planted them in his garden in the West Country. They j flowerer just as profusely in the warm I soil and mild Cornish climate as on the ' Continent. Growers noted this fact. | Soon bunches were on their way to Covent Garden. They proved popular. So began the new Cornish industry of anemone growing just as romantically as the daffodils from the Scillies which were first sent to Covent Garden in a hat box. Something like 60.000,0001 corms are now planted annually, and at blossom time the Cornish anemone fields are a mass of vivid colours, ranging from scarlet, pink, and purple to blue, violet and white. The buds open out almost as quickly as they can be picked. In the early hours of yesterday over six tons., representing 600.000 blooms, arrived at Paddington en route for Convent Garden.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 1 December 1938, Page 10
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