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border plants. P. Hookerii is a nearly related species of a 

 more bushy and leafy habit. Flowers varying from rose to 

 scarlet with black or white centre. The opium poppy (P. 

 somniferum) is, however, the most varied of all the annual 

 species. There are dwarf and tall, single and double forms, 

 varying from white to deep scarlet and crimson. P. Icevi- 

 gatum is another very beautiful annual species, which has 

 deep scarlet flowers with black centres bordered with white. 

 All of these are fine summer flowering kinds, which should 

 be increased by means of seeds sown on the spot early in 

 spring. The border is best for most double varieties. 



Mexican Poppy, Argemone Mexicana. A rather showy 

 annual with yellow or white flowers in summer. Leaves 

 sinuate, prickly. The large-flowered Mexican poppy (A. 

 grawliflora) is a showy perennial plant well worth growing. 

 Flowers in loose panicles, large, white, with yellow anthers. 

 Leaves pinnatifid, spiny. A robust plant of erect habit 

 two or three feet high. Both will do well in sterile and 

 sandy soil. They are fine for roadsides or rockeries. May 

 also be grown in a border in a sunny position. 



Welsh Poppy, Mecanopsis Cambrica. A very desirable, 

 erect-growing perennial with pinnate leaves and long racemes 

 of pale yellow flowers on single stems. Fine in rockeries 

 when grown several together. Height one foot. 



California Poppy, Eschsclioltzia Californica. This is one 

 of the very finest annual plants with glaucous, much 

 divided leaves with linear segments. Flowers solitary on 

 slender, naked scapes, bright yellow, orange or white. In 

 large patches in beds or borders or in the rockery. Will 

 thrive in ordinary, good soil and often in sandy and sterile 



