THE GARDEN WEEK BY WEEK 



June and worth adding to any large border. It grows 

 I-15 four feet high or more. The Hlac flowers are bell- 

 shaped. 



The Poppies (Papaver) are, of course, an extremely 

 valuable genus, giving us plants of rapid growth, hand- 

 some foliage, and large brilliant flowers. The yellow 

 Alpine Poppy (Alpinum), and its varieties, which include 

 white, orange, and pink, are pretty rockery plants. The 

 Iceland Poppy (Nudicaule), yellow, and its numerous 

 varieties, among which white, orange, striped, pale 

 yellow, and semi-double are all favourites, are also ex- 

 cellent for rock gardens, as well as for beds. Blooming 

 abundantly in late spring and early summer, their 

 flowers are light, graceful, and pleasing. Among the 

 larger perennial Poppies the varieties of Orientale, which 

 grows three feet high, and has large scarlet flowers, are 

 in great demand for mixed borders. One may get 

 crimson, pink, orange, salmon rose, salmon orange, and 

 semi-double scarlet, all with enormous flowers. Papaver 

 Pilosum, with its " art " shade of orange buff, flowering 

 in late spring, is a distinct and attractive Poppy ; it grows 

 about a yard high. 



The Pentstemon has now become a recognised 

 florists' flower, and named varieties are propagated by 

 means of cuttings in autumn, but a splendid collection 

 can be grown from seed. The amateur should ask for a 

 mixed prize strain of florists' Pentstemons. He may, if 

 he likes, grow some of the species also, such as Glaber, 

 violet, a nice plant for the rockery ; Murrayanus, scarlet ; 

 and Speciosus, violet, a good rock garden plant. These 

 come true from seed. 



Phloxes are on the same plane as Pentstemons. Most 

 amateurs hke to get some of the fine florists' varieties 

 named in a previous chapter, and keep them true by 

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