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white or rose-white, feathery plumes of this Japan 

 perennial are sure to arrest your attention. Plume 

 poppy is a good name for the plant. Its terminal pan- 

 icles of bloom are certainly plume-like, and for feathery 

 fineness they cannot be excelled. You can easily iden- 

 tify the plant by these plume-like panicles which tuft 

 and pompon the ends of the tall, upright, thickset 

 stalks. These stalks or stems are set with beautifully 

 cut leaves, round-cordate, with the lobes themselves 

 cut again and again into smaller lobes. If the plant 

 is not in flower, these very strikingly-cut leaves will 

 identify it. The leaves are thick, veiny and glaucous, 

 and have a somewhat fig-like look. The plant gets 

 its name from Dr. Paolo Bocconi, an Italian (Sicilian) 

 botanist and belongs to the poppy family. You will 

 find an excellent specimen of it, just south of the Cerci- 

 diphyllum, and west of a fine American holly that 

 stands close by the Walk which comes down from the 

 rear of McGowan's. To make this perfectly clear, 

 take the Walk that starts in from the Drive, just 

 south of McGowan's, with a black walnut on either 

 side of it, where it starts from the Drive. Follow it 

 easterl'y to the stone urn, then branch off to your right 

 southerly to the third fork of the Walk. About mid- 

 way between the third and fourth fork, on your right 

 (west) stands the American holly. Just west of this 

 is Azalea mollis, and due west of the azalea, and south 

 of the Cercidiphyllum is the handsome mass of Boc- 

 conia. A graceful Magnolia glauca, with leaves green 

 above and whitish below, stands off a little to the 

 southwest of the Bocconia. 



