CHAPTER X. 



JUNE TO OCTOBER. 

 Poppy to Love-in-a-Mist. 



The Poppy. The Poppy family is so large and so 

 Fapamr. varied in type that a garden filled 



with all the different varieties would present an as- 

 tonishing picture of contrasting forms and colors 

 from the 1st of June until the middle of October. 

 Yet, notwithstanding this fact, there are few who 

 allow the family a fair representation in their gar- 

 dens. Our knowledge of poppies, therefore, is gen- 

 erally confined to a very few varieties. 



Gray says we have no truly wild species ; all our 

 poppies come from the Old World ; but he mentions 

 a variety (P. dubiuni) which has run wild in fields in 

 Pennsylvania. In England and Scotland, and even in 

 Italy, the graceful, single, scarlet poppy is commonly 

 seen growing wild, especially in fields where wheat 

 is sown. I have gathered quantities of the flowers 

 in waste places within the walls of Eome. It seems 

 strange that this easy-growing annual has not obtained 



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