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rapidly, it may be done by keeping them in a brisk dry heat near 

 the glass. In the open air it is usually grown for the effect of its 

 leaves, and does not often flower except in the greenhouse. 



PAPAVER KUSTXi'Xi-m.— Alpine Poppy. 



This has large and beautiful white flowers, with yellow centres, 

 and with smooth, or hairy, dissected leaves, cut into fine acute 

 lobes, A native of the higher Alps of Europe, this plant may 

 sometimes be seen in good condition in our gardens, but it is liable 

 to perish as if not a true perennial. It varies a good deal as to 

 colour, there being white, scarlet, and yellow forms in cultivation. 

 The variety albiflorum of botanists has white flowers, spotted at 

 the base, while the •^axieiy jflaviflorutn has showy orange flowers, 

 grows three or four inches high, and is hairy. This last variety 

 is also known as P. pyrenaicum. 



PAPAVER NUDICATJLE. — Iceland Poppy ■ 



A FINE dwarf kind, with deeply lobed and cut leaves, and large 

 rich yellow flowers on naked stems, reaching from twelve to 

 fifteen inches high. A native of Siberia and the northern parts 

 of America, and a handsome plant for borders or rockwork, 

 easily raised from seed, and forming ri(5h masses of cup-like 

 flowers, but, like other dwarf Poppies, does not seem to be 

 permanent, and should be raised annually. There are several 

 varieties. 



PARADISIA LILIASTRUM.— ^/. Bruno's Lily. 



When the traveller first crawls down from the cold and snowy 

 heights of' an alp into the grateful warmth and English-meadow- 

 like freshness of a Piedmontese valley, most likely the first flower 

 he notices in the long and pleasant grass of the lower flanks of 

 the valley is a lily-like blossom, standing about level with the 

 tops of the blades of Grass and Orchises. The blooms, about 

 two inches long, s6 clearly and delicately white that they might 

 well pS.ss for emblems of purity, have each division faintly tipped 

 with pale green, and from two to five flowers occur on each 

 stem. It does not grow in close tufts as in our borders, but one 

 or perhaps two stems spring up here and there all over the mea- 

 dows, and the effect of the half-pendent " Lilies " is then fasci.-- 



