, AND THE WILDERNESS BLOSSOMED 



Popples may be noted the Bride, pure white. 

 Empress of China, white with scarlet margins, 

 and Danebrog, or Danish Flag, scarlet with a 

 white cross in the centre. 



You may expect to raise single or semi-double 

 flowers from the seeds of any of the double 

 varieties, generally, however, following the parent 

 closely in the matter of color. You may gather 

 and plant the seeds of a single Poppy of this 

 species, and environment may cause it to produce 

 remarkably double flowers. If your plants are 

 too close together in your beds, or if for any 

 other reason they are not sufficiently nourished, 

 you may expect to raise only small single or 

 semi-double flowers, while on the other hand, if 

 you give your plants plenty of space and ample 

 nourishment, you can produce large and very 

 double flowers. 



From the seeds of a plant that bore large single 

 flowers with blackish-purple base, shading to 

 mauve and edged with salmon, I raised in a single 

 season large and very double Paeony-flowered 

 blossoms, exactly like the parent in color. From 

 the seeds of these I got both double and single 

 forms, in the colors of the original, and also a 

 variety in which white took the place of the 



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