June 5, 1889.] 



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and paint. The lead usually endures longer, and it is easily 

 applied at just the moment the label is wanted. A carpenter's 

 pencil is best for this work. t zj r> -i 



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Heuchera Sanguinea. — This plant, now in bloom, justifies 

 all that has already been written and said in its favor. The 

 flowers are borne on long, slender stems and are of a bright 

 coral red. The foliage is handsome also, being mottled with 

 brown. The plants from seed vary considerably in this re- 



Papaver bractsatum roseum. — The gorgeous Oriental Poppy 

 is a cons])icuous plant just now in the flower-garden, and its 

 merits as a showy border-perennial are pretty generally recog- 

 nized. Papaver bracteatuin is, strictly speaking, only a variety 

 of P. oricntale, differing principally in the leafy bracts attached 

 to the flowers. We have in bloom at the present time a 

 variety of P. bracteatum, the flowers of which are fully as large, 

 but the color is a beautiful clear pink similar to that of a Mer- 

 met Rose. This plant is known as P. bracteatum roseum, and 

 is of English origin. One peculiarity of this plant is that seed- 



Fig. 112. — Syringa Amurensis. — See page 267. 



spect. Our plants are twelve months old from seed, but we 

 find that side shoots are freely produced, and these root read- 

 ily and soon form nice plants. It would be interesting to know 

 if any one has tested the plant as to its hardiness in the Eastern 

 States, it being a native of Mexico. It will probably prove ten- 

 der, buteven if this is so the plant has the value of producing 

 flowers in winter when potted and placed in a warm house 

 where a temperature of about 50° can be maintained. 



lings raised invariably revert to the typical form ; this neces- 

 sarily makes propagation rather slow, and may account for the 

 fact that it has not become common yet, though known to gar- 

 dens for a number of years. In other respects the plant is as 

 hardy and floriferous as P. Oricntale, and promises to be quite 

 an acquisition to the list of perennial Poppies, which already 

 contains one sterling variety of American origin — P. Parkmanni. 

 Passaic, N. J. E. O. Orpet. 



