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 almost a gray: these I at once pulled up, lest the seed take hold 

 upon ground much needed for better things. One cannot give 

 too much space to the poppy in the formal garden; it is too 

 ephemeral. It vanishes in a night. But I have always found that 

 its quick replacing of itself by itself, the prompt following of 

 the fallen petal by the newly opened flower, makes of it a much 

 more permanent occupant of the border, in the way of flowering 

 things, than is the case with many other annuals. These from 

 England were most beautiful as they stood in a gay multitude 

 with Cephalarla tossing its pale yellow heads into the air be- 

 yond them, the green of damask roses back of those, and twenty 

 feet beyond, the carved birds and lattices of the little tea house, 

 seen between ha^\-thorns whose leaves glistened in the late sun- 

 light of an evening in July. 



Beyond these poppies are great heads of Delphinium seed 

 with still a fewer lower spikes of blue. These are the tall vari- 

 eties, Lloyd George, General Baden-Powell, Clemenceau (and 

 magnificent they are) from Kelway's seed. A few Clarkia plants 

 are not far off. If I had space, this is a flow^er that I should sow 

 for succession of bloom, exactly as one does peas for that good 

 vegetable. No flower excels the Clarkia for cutting; none is so 

 gracefid in water or so lasting within doors. Its peachlike pink 

 is delightful: its nice purplish or cool pink blooms are highly 

 interesting in association with the violet annual larkspur; and 

 this is true of planting as of the use of the cut flower. 



And now for the opiirni poppy : to look down on the magnifi- 

 cent heads of this palest cream-pink poppy is an experience. 

 Flower tufts were never so tightly packed as these. A firm pale 

 green case, splitting in two as the flower develops, holds this 

 color and softness imprisoned till such time as it opens into the 

 great fluffy beauty of the poppy, and every bud is held erect, 

 expectant, ready for that moment. Not far from these flowers 



