THE OEIENTAL 

 POPPY. 



Fapavcr Onentale. 



this garish plant it may be 

 said "oace seen, known for evei-." 

 The name suggests an Indian 

 plant, but Armenia and the Cau- 

 casus are its head-quarters, and 

 therefore there is no problem pre- 

 sented in the fact that it is 

 perfectly hardy in the English 

 garden. As regards its one dis- 

 tino'uishing' character it stands 

 alone. There is no plant that 

 can compete with it for the size 

 and fiery splendour of its flowers, 

 which, indeed, spoil everything of 

 a quiet and refined nature that 

 happens to be in the vicinity, when 

 it is holding forth its burning 

 cressets like signals of alarm. 

 It is very careless of conditions, being a thrifty plant on 

 a cold clay soil, though more thrifty and more splendid 

 on a dry gravel, or on a sunny rockery affording a good 

 depth of free gritty loam. 



The perennial poppies are scarcely entitled to be re- 

 garded as first-class garden plants. They are in some 



