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rose, mahogany, and lately a pure white one. These 

 are all lovely with the gray foliage plants, especially 

 with Rue and Artemisia Stellariana, but should be kept 

 out of the way of the orange and scarlet sorts. Some of 

 the best are Blush Queen, Bracteatum, good red; Beauty 

 of Livermore, deep crimson; Marie Studholme, salmon 

 with purple stain; Mrs. Perry Salmon; Silver Queen, 

 lovely flushed white; Medusa, satiny rose; Lady Roscoe, 

 terra cotta, and Perry's White. 



Oriental Poppies are easily raised from seed and they 

 also seed themselves freely in our garden, often creating 

 havoc of some pet colour scheme, for it is not possible to 

 allow them to associate with just anybody. The long 

 taproot of these Poppies enables them to stand our 

 dry summers without great suffering. The flowers last 

 longer in partial shade, but the plants are as well off in 

 full sunshine. After flowering the foliage usually dies 

 away, not reappearing until the cooler nights of August 

 lure it above ground again. This leaves a blank in the 

 borders, and so behind all the Oriental Poppies we plant 

 Gypsophila paniculata, the mistlike bloom of which 

 covers their vagrant ways and is ready to be cut away 

 by the time the Poppies see fit to reappear. 



