DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERS. 309 
Poppies makes a grand show. All the varieties are easily 
cultivated from seed. None of them can be transplanted 
with success. 
P. Rheas.—Corn Poppy or African Rose —A common 
weed, among grain on gravelly soils, in England; but, in 
its double and semi-double varieties, it is one of the hand- 
somest of garden annuals, sporting into different varieties 
of scarlet, crimson, purple, pink, white, variegated, and 
parti-colored flowers, continuing all summer in bloom. 
The odor of the flower renders it unpopular. The flow- 
ers are exceeding beautiful and delicate. The single va- 
riety of the common kind is of a bright scarlet, with a 
deep purple eye in the center, which the poet supposes to 
be upon the look-out for Ceres: 
“* And the Poppies red, 
On their wistful bed, 
Turn up their dark-blue eyes to thee.” 
P. orientalis.—Oriental Poppy.—This is a magnificent 
perennial, worth all. the rest of the Poppy tribe. Its 
large, gorgeous, orange-scarlet flowers, display themselves 
in the month of June. The bottoms of the petals are 
black; the stigma is surrounded with a multitude of rich 
purple stamens, the anthers of which shed a profusion of 
pollen, which powders over the stigma and the internal 
part of the flower, giving it a very rich appearance.. 
The flower-stems are rough, three feet high, each oue 
bearing a single, solitary flower, five or six inches in di- 
ameter. A clump, with twenty or thirty of these flowers, 
makes one of the most conspicuous and showy ornaments 
of the garden. Leaves are rough, pinnate, serrate. Prop- 
agated by dividing the roots, which should be done as soon 
as the foliage has died down in August, as it commences 
growing again in September, and throws up leaves which 
remain during winter, it being one of the most hardy 
plants. If division be deferred until spring, if it blooms at 
