LIST OF FLOWERS 



issingle, has a white base with yellow or white stamens, and never 

 has any blaclj about it. Other beautiful varieties of the Single 

 Annual Poppy are P. pavonium, or Peacock Poppy, growing in com- 

 pact little tufts of about i foot high and bearing a profusion of 

 bright crimson flowers with an inside ring of black; the Victoria 

 Cross Poppy, with fine scarlet flowers bearing a broad white cross; 

 and that cadled The Bride, with fringed flowers of pure white. The 

 Double Annual Poppy is also well worth attention, and its fine peony- 

 headed bloom produces a grand effect when the plants are judicioudy 

 massed, its colours includiiig rich scarlet, delicate pink, bright lilac, 

 and pure white; while the annual called the Feathered Poppy makes 

 a handsome plant some 2 feet high and bears large ball -like 

 blossoms resembling finely-cut feathers in various shades of pink, 

 salmon colour and white. Then there is the Oriental Poppy (P. 

 orientale), a noble and hardy perennial with splendid foliage and 

 showy bloom, of which P. bracteatum is one of the best varieties, 

 with huge blood-red flowers 6 or 7 inches across and blooming 

 early in May; while other varieties produce flowers of orange, pink, 

 purple, maroon, etc., in different shades. Besides these there is the 

 beautiful little Iceland Poppy (P. nudicaule), of dwarf but robust 

 habit, bearing large flowers of rich yellow, and which, though a 

 perennial, is better tre3,ted as an annual; while for the Rock Garden 

 there is the Alpine Poppy (P. alfinum), with various colours of 

 scarlet, pink and yellow, sowing itself readily year by year (though 

 a perennial, it often fails to endure) in clefts of walls or in the crevices 

 of the Rock Garden, and thriving in poor soil and bright sunshine. 

 All Poppies are easily raised from seed and should be sown where 

 intended to flower, as they wUl not bear transplanting, and to keep 

 them blooming it is necessary to nip off the seed-pods immediately 

 they form. 



PASSIFLORA {Passion Flower). For outdoor cultivation the 

 Blue Passion Flower (P. coerulea) and its white variety, Constance 

 Elliot, are undoubtedly the best, being fairly hardy in the southern 

 districts of our country, especially if trained against a wall with 

 southern aspect; a wall is better than a trellis, as it stores up heat. 

 The Passion Flower is practically evergreen, only losing its foliage 

 when renewing its leaves in the spring, and throughout the summer 

 it is covered with large starry flowers which, in favourable situations, 

 yield beautiful masses of orange-coloured fruit, but to enable it to 

 bear fruit there must be severed plants at no great distance from each 

 other. Both the blue and the white kind are best propagated from 



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