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clear light pink with sea-green center, 

 the anthers in a golden halo about it ; 

 black and fire-color ; red that is deep- 

 ened into black, with gray reflections, 

 cherry-color with a cross of creamy 

 white at the bottom of the cup, and 

 round its central altar of iTieffable 

 golden green again the halo of yellow 

 anthers. . . . Oh, these white poppies, 

 some with petals more delicate than 

 the finest tissue paper, with centers of 

 bright gold, some of thicker quality, 

 large shell-like petals, almost ribbed in 

 their effect, their green knob in the 

 middle like a boss upon a shield, rayed 

 about with beautiful grayish-yellow sta- 

 mens, as in the kind called the Bi'ide. 

 Others — they call this kind the Snow- 

 drift — have thick double flowers, deep- 

 ly cut and fringed at the edges, the 

 most opaque white, and full of exqui- 

 site shadows. Then there are the Ice- 

 landers, which Lieutenant Peary found 

 making gay the frosty fields of Green- 

 land, in buttercup-yellow and orange 

 and white ; the great Orientals, gor- 

 geous beyond expression ; and the im- 



Shirley Poppy. 



