MIDSUMMER POMPS 



the severest of winters. Here is a flower which 

 does well in any good garden soil, though sunlight 

 is its prime necessity. Equally vital to its well- 

 doing is its transplanting when dormant in August 

 or September, or so I used to think. I know now, 

 after some experimenting, that the Oriental poppy 

 can be safely moved in spring as well. 



Until two years ago, when some of the varieties 

 of this flower of recent introduction were revealed 

 to me, I was ignorant of the development of the 

 flower. 



"Then felt I like some watcher of the skies 

 When a new planet swims into his ken." 



Princess Victoria Louise, the huge bloom of a 

 delicious rosy-salmon hue, was a sensation. One 

 who enjoys the delicate suggestion of thin flame 

 should stand before this flower transported with 

 delight. And now the list of Bertrand H. Farr, 

 of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, gives us no less 

 than thirty varieties of Oriental poppies in only 

 five of which the word "scarlet" enters into the 

 descriptions. All the rest verge upon the salmon, 

 apricot, amaranth, and deep-mulberry shades. The 

 lighter colors of these newer poppies are, as has 

 been suggested, very like those of the Shirley 

 poppy, and how remarkable to find in the larger, 



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