92 MAKING OF A FLOWER GARDEN 



annual poppy, the Bride, whose great white cups are 

 often the size of a pint bowl and home aloft on stems 

 five feet or more. I have grown them, solitary speci- 

 mens, in sunny positions, of a size that made it neces- 

 sary to bend the flowers down to see the golden 

 anthers which made beautiful the interior of the 

 great white cup. 



The Hunnemannias, or bush Bschscholtzias make 

 stocky plants covered with large buttercup-yellow, 

 poppy-like blossoms which 'cover the plants through- 

 out the summer and fall. The foliage resembles the 

 ordinary Bschscholtzias somewhat, having the same 

 glaucus color and feathery form. 



The golden bartonia is another showy annual well 

 adapted to sunny positions. The foliage is gi;ey, 

 downy and thistle-like, the flowers, golden-yellow and 

 exceedingly showy and brilliant in the sunshine. The 

 seed should be sown where the plants are to bloom, 

 as they do not bear transplanting well. 



One of the most satisfactory annuals for the garden 

 is found in the Arctotis grandis, with its white, daisy- 

 like flowers encircling a golden center and showing 

 blue reflexes on the outer side of the petals. It makes 

 many-branched plants and is covered from early sum- 

 mer until hard frost with its beautiful flowers. No 

 flower with which I am acquainted is more valuable 

 for cutting, the flowers lasting in water an incredible 

 time and the buds opening quite as well as though 



