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inclined to answer, Fairy Blush ; but then would come 

 a feeling of regret at the injustice done Rosy Morn, 

 Eider Down, Bride, and New Cardinal. Still, the 

 Fairy Blush is a most perfect beauty, whose creamy 

 white delicately penciled with 

 the purest strong pink is 

 transcendently lovely. I have 

 grown specimens in my gar- 

 den which measured four 

 inches across.* The Rosy 

 Morn grows even larger, and 

 possesses a wealth of warm pink which 

 rivals many a rose. But I could not 

 exceed Celia Thaxter in her admira- 

 tion for the glorious poppy, and I can 

 not do better than quote what she says 

 in An Island Garden : " I think for 

 wondrous variety, for certain pictur- 

 esque qualities, for color and form, 

 and a subtile mystery of character. 

 Mikado Poppy, poppics sccm . . . the most satisfac- 

 tory jflowers among the annuals. . . . 

 They are the tenderest lilac, richest scarlet, white 

 with softest suffusion of rose — all shades of rose — 



* This Fairy Blush poppy was raised from seed obtained from 

 Mr. W. Atlee Burpee, of Philadeljjhia. 



