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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



tus, with round, \'eiy spiny stems, and yellowish flowers, 

 often with a reddish centre. It blooms in summer, and is 

 excellent for rockwoi'k. Among the best garden flowers of 

 summer are the poppies, I mean the hardy herbaceous pop- 

 pies, not the annuals, which are also very pretty. The hardy 

 type of these showy poppies is the Oriental poppy (Papa- 

 ver orientate ), of which there exist several shoAvy ^•arie- 

 ties, such as P. hracteaturn, etc. P. bracteatum, great 

 scarlet poppy, is a splendid tall-growing species, producing 

 dense rounded masses of long leaves roughish to the touch 

 above and below. The flower stems are almost leafless, 

 very rough and shaggy, and three or four feet high, sup- 

 porting each an enormously large bright orange-scarlet 

 flower marked, at the base of petals and sepals, with a large 

 intense dark crimson spot. It is a native of Siberia. 

 Other kinds come from Greece and the Pyrenees. Papuver 

 nudicaule var. eroceum, Iceland poppy, is an entirely difiler- 



ent plant from the last. It is a 

 pretty dwarf-growing plant, A\dth 

 bright saflfron-colored flowers grow- 

 ing on stems one foot high. It is 

 excellent for rock-work. 

 ;.j^^ Puhus odoratiiH, purple flower- 

 J^y ing raspberry, is an old well-known 

 plant of the highest excellence. Its 

 large massive foliage is effective, 

 and it grows in the shade and 

 in the most unpropitious places. 

 The flowers are an inch or more in diameter, and a deep 

 purple. 



PURPLE FLOWERING RASPBERRY. 

 (rubus odoratus.) 



