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Herbaceous plants. 



and rockeries. Useful border plants. Thrive well in ordi- 

 nary garden soil. The following are two very beautiful 

 Alpine poppies which are exceptionally fine plants for 

 rockeries : Mountain poppy (P. dpinuni), a dwarf peren- 

 nial six inches high, 

 with small, glaucous, pin- 

 natifid leaves and soli- 

 tary, rather large and 

 showy yellow flowers on 

 slender scapes; Iceland 

 poppy (P. nudicaule), is 

 a somewhat larger and 

 more robust species of a 

 similar habit with orange- 

 yellow or white flowers. 

 These may also be grown 

 on hillsides and slopes of 

 sterile lawns with the 

 most beautiful effect. 

 The following are annu- 

 als and flower late in the 

 summer ; fine plants for 

 beds and borders : corn poppy (P. Uliceas). Root-leaves 

 almost pinnate, covered with bristly hairs, tufted. Stems 

 single, slightly leafy. Flowers nodding, scarlet, with a black 

 centre ; very showy. Most beautiful when grown in irregu- 

 lar groups with ox-eye daisy (Leucantliemum vulgare) and 

 cornflower (Centaur ea Cyanus) in the outskirts of shrub- 

 berries or on sterile slopes, in borders, or as a roadside plant. 

 The beautiful double varieties of different colors are fine 



FIG. 128. ORIENTAL POPPY (PAPAVER ORIENTALIS 

 BRACTEATUM). 



