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plants are in flower a few days before Easter Sunday, make up your 

 pans; they want to be good and full in order to look at their best. 

 After they have been potted, place them in a cool, shaded house. 



As TO VARIETIES 



Always make sure you have enough yellows and blues. In 

 fact, for Spring it is well to sow out one-half of your requirements 

 in the three separate colors: yellow, blue, and white and the other 

 half in a mixture. The same almost holds good for indoor growing; 

 if anything, don't grow quite as many white ones and go perhaps 

 a little heavier on the yellows. 



PAPAVER (POPPY) 

 ORIENTAL POPPIES 



The Oriental Poppy (Papaver orientals) attracts much attention 

 in the hardy border in June. It makes a large plant with fern-like 



foliage, covered for a week or 

 more with long-stemmed, large, 

 single, scarlet flowers. Besides 

 the red there is a splendid pink, 

 Mrs. Perry, and to complete 

 the assortment, you should also 

 plant the white (Perry's White.) 



All three grow easily from 

 seed which, with the florist, is 

 best sown out in early Spring. 

 The seedlings, when large 

 enough, should be potted up 

 into 2s to be planted later on 

 in the field. None of the Pop- 

 pies, whether annual or hardy, 

 is fond of having its roots dis- 

 turbed; that is the reason for 

 potting the seedlings. 



The Oriental Poppies die 

 down after they are through 

 flowering and new leaves appear 

 in September; this makes it 

 necessary to plant something 

 between them. When you have 

 them in a hardy border, Glad- 

 ioli are as good as anything. 



Fig. 229. ORIENTAL POPPIES. These 

 hardy Poppies bloom with the Irises and 

 Columbines and certainly liven up the 

 border. We have them now in white, 

 pink, and scarlet, all the varieties being 

 easily grown from seed 



ICELAND POPPIES 



With us the Iceland Pop- 

 pies are among the first plants 



