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this reason it is most at home on rock-gardens, but 

 with care it can be grown on the flat, and is very 

 easily raised from seed. 



P. pilosum is another valuable border plant, 

 with grey-green leaves, branching stems about 

 eighteen inches high, and flowers of a lovely 

 apricot colour three or four inches across. Its 

 flowers are apt to fall after midday, but there is 

 a fresh supply every morning for many weeks. 

 When the plant begins to look untidy it should be 

 cut down, and will soon send up new shoots and 

 look fresh again ; this also should be raised from 

 seed. 



For the sake of the unlearned, perhaps I may 

 be excused for mentioning here the Welsh Poppy, 

 which is really not a Papaver but Meconopsis 

 cambrica. It is a charming, sturdy-growing plant, 

 throwing up masses of clear yellow flowers early 

 in May and continuing in bloom for many weeks. 

 It will grow in complete shade under bushes and 

 shrubs (as well as in sunny places) and sows itself 

 freely, making pretty effects in peeping out from 

 dark corners, and is invaluable in a north border ; 

 there is a newer double variety of an orange 

 colour. 



