6 POPULAR GARDEN FLOWERS 



Rose de Nice, rose. 



St. Brigid, a mixed strain. 



Salmon King, salmon. 



Sir Joseph Paxton, light violet. 



The singles are not so keenly sought after as the 

 doubles, but they are beautiful. Scarlet, white, and blue 

 varieties can be procured. 



All the Poppy Anemones grow about a foot high, 

 and they thrive in most kinds of soil. If they are grown 

 from tubers they should be planted in autumn for spring 

 bloom, and in spring for summer flowering. If the 

 tubers are examined, the incipient buds can be dis- 

 tinguished, and these should be uppermost. The tubers 

 should be set two inches deep and six inches apart. 

 Heavy clay soil is not supposed to suit the Anemones, 

 but I have had excellent results from it when well 

 drained, so that moisture had no chance of collecting 

 and becoming stagnant. If I had undrained soil to deal 

 with, I should either plant on a bed the level of which 

 had been raised, or in spring. Given these provisions, 

 clay soil is good, especially for summer blooming, as it 

 supplies the moisture which these plants love so well. 

 Poor soil should be well enriched with decayed manure. 

 After the flowering the leaves will gradually die away, 

 and when they have withered the roots of the spring- 

 flowering plants may be lifted, dried, and stored in thin 

 layers in a dry place. 



On a cool, fertile clay soil in a mild district in Kent 

 I found seedling Poppy Anemones a source of great 

 pleasure and interest. Some of the plants flowered the 

 same year, others the following spring. As the seed 

 is fluffy, and given to close adherence, thin sowing is 

 not easy until the seed has been rubbed up in sand or 

 fine soil. After this has been done it can be spread 



