Hardy Exotic Flowering Plants 185 



I saw a group of the double scarlet kind flowering in the 

 long grass in Oxfordshire. The owner had placed a large 

 group of this plant in an unmown glade, quite away from 

 the garden proper ; and yet, seen from the lawn and garden, 

 the effect was most brilliant. To be able to produce such 

 effects in the early summer is a gain from a landscape point 

 of view, apart from the beauty of the flowers when seen 

 close at hand. 



Poppy, Papaver, in wan — The huge and flaming Eastern 

 Poppies, Papaver orientale, P. bracteatum, and P. lateritium, 

 are the most important of this type. They will thrive and 

 live long in almost any position, but 

 the proper place for them is in open 

 spots among strong herbaceous plants. 

 For the wild garden the Welsh Poppy 

 (Meconopsis cambrica) is one of the 

 best plants. It is a cheerful plant at all 

 seasons ; perched on some old dry wall 

 its masses of foliage are very fresh, but 

 when loaded with a profusion of large 

 yellow blossoms the plant is handsome ; 

 it is a determined colonizer, ready to 

 hold its own anywhere. Its home is 

 the wall, the rock, and the ruin. It 

 even surpasses the Wallflower in adapt- 

 ing itself to out-of-the-way places; it 

 will spring up in the gravel walk under one's feet, and is 

 happy among stones in the courtyard. It looks down on one 

 from crevices in brick walls, from chinks where one could 

 scarcely introduce a knife-blade, and it delights most in shady 

 places. No plant can be better adapted for naturalizing on 

 rough stony banks, old quarries, and gravel pits. 



PHL0MI3. — Type of hand- 

 some Labiates ; flowers 

 admirably Bmted for the 

 Wild G arden. (See p. 1S6.) 



