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out as soon as possible. This applies also to the other 

 plants mentioned above. They are all very easily 

 raised from seed, and if treated as annuals will come 

 into flower in July and often blossom up to the frosts. 

 Papaver alpinus is a plant so beautiful that it has 

 moved M. Correvon to write a very pretty poem about 

 it. It is like a small and more delicate Iceland poppy. 

 The flowers are white, pink, orange, or yellow, and 

 often delicately fringed. It must be protected from 

 drought and often flowers itself to death, but repro- 

 duces itself freely by self-sown seedlings. Linaria 

 alpina is almost more beautiful. The type has bril- 

 liant purple and orange flowers. There is a variety 

 all purple and one pink and orange. It does well in 

 most situations when it has plenty of light and air. 

 It also often flowers itself to death, but seeds itself 

 almost too profusely. Both of these plants should be 

 transplanted with care and when they are very small. 

 This also applies to Calandrinia umbellata, which 

 likes the hottest, driest places and has flowers of a 

 very brilliant crimson magenta colour, which might 

 be ugly but for their shining silky texture. It should 

 be treated as an annual, as it is apt to die in our win- 

 ters. It does best in very hot, dry summers. An- 

 tirrhinum asarina is a prostrate Snapdragon from 

 Spain with pale yellow flowers. It also likes a very 

 hot place, and will usually survive the winter if planted 

 in a crevice between the rocks and in a soil mainly 

 consisting of rubble. It is a curious and beautiful 

 plant, but not suited for a wet or cold climate. Cam- 



