ON SOME INTERESTING ALIENS 



always, attention is paid to gracefulness and abun- 

 dance of blooming, and vigor and general health 

 of the plant. 



The improvements in all these regards have 

 been quite striking, although I have not considered 

 any individual variety worthy of introduction 

 under a new name. 



Notwithstanding the amount of work that has 

 been done with them, the ixias will well repay the 

 attention of the amateur who cares to work with 

 them. 



ORIENTAL POPPIES 



In an earlier chapter an account was given of 

 my blue poppy. An account has also been given 

 of the development of new colors in the flower 

 usually called the California poppy, but more 

 properly known by the somewhat forbidding name 

 of Eschscholzia. Very little has been said, how- 

 ever, about the experiments with the well known 

 annual and perennial poppies, which have pro- 

 duced some results of considerable interest. 



The poppies in question are the opium poppy 

 (Papaver somnifera), and one previously called 

 the Oriental (Papaver orientalis) . 



The opium poppy is, as everyone knows, a 

 commercial product of vast commercial impor- 

 tance in the Far East. It has been under cultivation 

 in Europe to a greater or less extent for several 



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