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Old Time Gardens 



" Thou say'st an undisputed thing 

 In such a solemn way." 



The truth is, you have very little to do with it. 



That Poppy chooses to keep company with the 



White Lupine, 

 and to that im- 

 pulse you owe 

 your fine gar- 

 den effect. The 

 Poppy is the 

 slyest magician 

 of the whole 

 garden. H e 

 comes and goes 

 at will. This 

 year a few 

 blooms, nearly 

 all in one cor- 

 ner ; next year 

 a blaze of color 

 banded across 

 the middle of 

 the garden like 

 the broad sash 

 of a court cham- 

 berlain. Then 

 a single grand 



blossom quite alone in the pansy bed, while another 



pushes up between the tight close leaves of the box 



edging : the Poppy is queer. 



Some flowers have such a hatred of man they can- 



Plume Poppy. 



