PLANTING 



foliage of gold dust, as the whole color scheme 

 of the garden was to be simplified. The tussle with 

 portulacca began. Each succeeding year it peeped 

 up through the earth, showing its pluri-colored blooms 

 in spite of digging, spading, and making the bed entirely- 

 over. In the end, the human force used against it 

 accomplished its destruction, although it undoubtedly 

 would have ousted gold dust if the latter had not been 

 so strongly reenforced. 



What, indeed, cannot be done with poppies? The 

 annual varieties are simple to handle because they can 

 develop fully in the same places that they are sown; 

 and, although their long tap root is reputed to render 

 them difficult to transplant, it can, nevertheless, be 

 done readily, provided enough earth is taken up at 

 the same time with the plants. 



To sow annual poppies in the beds and borders 

 early in the spring is to pave the way for an abundance 

 of dainty, sparkling bloom. Through the grass of pasture 

 lands they can be scattered and also in grain fields 

 after the manner in which they are seen growing in 

 England. Not many fields of grain, however, wave 

 near seaside gardens. In the ubiquitous vegetable 

 garden, they produce delightful surprises when sown 

 between the rows, where they serve as flowers for 

 picking. 



Annual poppies thrive best in a sandy loam. Their 

 seeds should be sown thinly or merely sprinkled over 

 the ground and pressed down as soon as the frost 

 has disappeared. When well up they should be 

 thinned out to about a foot apart. By sowing the 



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