64 SUMMER AND AUTUMN FLOWERS [CH. 



Papaver (Poppy) is an interesting garden plant of 

 free growth and easy culture. The largest of all is 

 orientate, bearing huge crimson-scarlet flowers. Bracte- 

 atum closely resembles it, but has leafy bracts just 

 beneath the blossom ; its colour is better and blooms 

 larger. A few of these grouped here and there on a 

 border, of themselves go to make a brilliant garden. 

 Nudicaule, the Iceland Poppy, is dwarf and well suited 

 for the rock garden ; there are white, orange, and yellow 

 varieties. There are few annuals so strikingly beautiful 

 as the Shirley Poppy, when grown early or late in good 

 soil and properly thinned. The yellow Welsh Poppy is, 

 properly speaking, a Meconopsis (Poppywort) ; it is more 

 easily grown than any other flower. 



The Penstemons are a valuable addition to the 

 flower border. Few plants bloom so freely and for so 

 long a season. Of late years they have been greatly 

 improved by careful selection. They may be grown 

 either from seed or cuttings. 



The Phlox belongs to a strangely varied family of 

 plants. Drummondi is one of the best of our annuals, and 

 has been brought to great perfection. Nivalis and its 

 allies are pretty trailing evergreen rock plants. The showy 

 Garden Phloxes have sprung from other types ; the White, 

 Scarlet, and Rosy-Salmon are beautiful and effective 

 border flowers, easily propagated by breaking the root 

 into pieces. 



