May SI, 1919 



HORTICULTURE 



529 



POPPIES FOR GOVERNMENT 

 PARKS. 



In Flanders fields the poppies blow 



Between the crosses, row on row. 



That mark our place; — 



Immortalized by a soldier-poet, him- 

 self buried in France, Flanders poppies 

 already are symbols of the Nation's 

 hero dead of the World War. s;iys the 

 National Geographic Society. 



Now, the poppy is to receive a semi- 

 official recognition by being planted in 

 Government parks of the Nation's Cap- 

 ital as perennial memorials to the men 

 who sleep under the cro*sses and 

 poppies of Flanders. 



To examine the poppy is not to vio- 

 late its new-found sentiment, for it un- 

 folds its glories upon closer study. 

 Moreover, it has a symbolism unex- 

 pected, because of the pure accident of 

 its association with America's sacri- 

 fices for freedom. 



The poppy is found in profusion in 

 France, but especially popular in Eng- 

 land, because it is the only scarlet flow- 

 er in the British flora, except the scar- 

 let pimpernel, and even that is more 

 red than scarlet. 



The poppy family has as many com- 

 plexions and habitats as the skins 

 and homes of the men whose graves it 

 decorates. To the swarthy African, to 

 the brave Australian, to the crusading 

 Californian and to the Asiatics em- 

 ployed behind the lines, the poppies of 

 France must have nodded familiar 

 heads in friendly welcome. 



There are half a hundred or more 

 species of .the poppy family. It is likely 

 the soldier-poet quoted above had In 

 mind the most prolific, one of the most 

 common, and what many consider the 

 most beautiful variety, the corn poppy 

 (Papaver Rhoeas). You will recall: 

 'Neath the blue of the sky, in the green 



of the corn, 

 It is here that the regal red poppies 



are born. 



A hint of the reason why the poppy 

 survived the searing tramp of armed 

 hosts and the churning of big gun fire 

 on the erstwhile grain fields of Flana- 

 ers is given in a farmer's doggerel: 

 When the poppy ripens be sure the 



seeds 

 Will stick the garden as with weeds. 



Nature provided the poppy with an 

 intricate and ingenious device of a 

 kind whicli makes the study of even 

 the simplest plant life a constant mar- 

 vel and delight. It is the village rheu- 

 matic of the flower community — 

 equipped with a miniature hydroscope. 

 long capsules contain the seeds of the 

 poppy. Atop each capsule are valves, 

 sensitive to moisture of the air, which 

 close when the atmosphere is humid. 



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