AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



pect the colors to come true. I advise you therefore 

 to buy simply the mixed seeds, for in them you 

 will find all the colors. Thereafter, if you desire, 

 you can keep the colors separate when you gather 

 your seed ; like the seeds you buy, however, you 

 will find that they will not always come true, but 

 show a constant tendency to produce yellow 

 flowers. 



The Oriental Poppy, Papaver orientale, is by 

 all odds the most showy perennial one can have. 

 The single flowers of brilliant scarlet on long 

 stems are most effective. The flowers often attain 

 a diameter of nine inches or more. A variety, 

 bracteatum, bears the largest flowers, each of the 

 four petals being marked with a black spot at the 

 base. Some hybrid forms have been produced 

 with pinkish or salmon blossoms. Seeds from 

 the latter, however, have always produced scarlet 

 flowering plants for me. This plant is easily 

 raised from seed, which should be sown early in 

 July, and the fresher the seed is the better. It is 

 easily transplanted, if the plants are taken up 

 when quite young. It blooms on the island from 

 about the 20th of June to the lOth of July, 

 and sparingly for a week or so later, its short 

 period of flowering being its only defect. Before 



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