STYLOPHOEUM 



POPPY OBDEB 



BOCCONIA 195 



in bud. Sepals 2. Petals 4. Stamens 

 many. 



Culture and Propagation. — The 

 species described below thrive in ordinary 

 garden soil. They prefer, however, a 

 mixture of moist sandy peat and loam, 

 and a cool half-shaded corner in the rock 

 garden. They may be increased by 

 dividing the roots in early autumn or 

 spring, or from seeds sown out of doors 

 about April or as soon as ripe. 



S. diphyllum (S. oMoense). — Celam- 

 dine Poppy. — A beautiful species 1 ft. 

 high, from N.W. America, with leaves 

 and flowers like those of the Celandine 

 (Ohelidoniu/m majus), pale or glaucous 

 beneath, smoothish. Flowers deep yellow, 

 2 in. across, produced freely in early 

 summer. 



Culture da. as above. 



S. japonicura {CheUdonium japoni- 

 cum). — An elegant plant 12-18 in. high, 

 native of Japan and N.E. Asia, with 

 slender stems, and lower leaves long- 

 stalked and pinnately cut. The yellow 

 Poppy-Uke flowers appear in May. 



Culture Sc. as above. 



EOMECON (Cyclamen Poppy).— A 

 genus having only the following species : — • 



E. chionantha. — A beautiful Chinese 

 perennial about 1 ft. high, with creeping 

 underground roots, and pale green long- 

 stalked and roundish shallowly lobed 

 leaves, about 3 in. across, with a deep 

 notch at the base, and resembling the 

 foliage of some species of Cyclamen. The 

 pure white flowers about 2 in. across 

 appear from May to September; and have 

 a bundle of deep orange stamens in the 

 centre of the 4 roundish oblong petals. 

 Both flower- and leaf-stalks are reddish 

 in colour, and are effective in compact- 

 growing specimens. 



Culture amd Propagation, — This 

 pretty plant flourishes in rich and well- 

 drained sandy loam with a little peat or 

 leaf mould added for the sake of warmth 

 in winter, and for retaining moisture in 

 summer. It should be grown in warm 

 sunny positions in the rock garden, and if 

 necessary protected with a sheet of glass 

 or a handlight in winter from cold and 

 heavy rains. It may be readily increased 

 by means of the underground creeping 

 roots, which are about as thick as the 

 finger and send up shoots at the tips 

 every spring. 



SANGUINARIA (Blood Eoot ; Bed 

 Puccoon). — ^A genus with only one 

 species : — 



S. canadensis. — This native of North 

 America grows 3-6 in. high and is a 

 distinct and pretty plant, having thick 

 creeping rootstocks with yellow juice, 

 and soUtary, rounded, palmately veined 

 leaves. The beautiful white flowers, one on 

 a stem, appear in April and May, and con- 

 sist of 2 sepals, 8-12 unorumpled petals 

 in 2 or 3 circles, and many stamens. The 

 variety grandiflora has larger flowers than 

 the type. 



Culture and Propagation. — The Blood 

 Boot prefers a rather moist soil, and 

 thrives under trees and other more or less 

 shaded places. The rootstocks of this 

 plant should not be taken out of the 

 ground and dried off, as they are apt to 

 lose their vitality by so doing. 



It is increased by dividing the root- 

 stocks in spring just as growth is about to 

 commence. When broken, they shed a 

 reddish juice, whence the common name 

 of Blood Boot. Seeds may also be sown in 

 pots or pans as soon as ripe, or in spring, 

 but it is safer not to prick the seedlings out 

 until the leaves begin to tiurn yellow and 

 he young rootstocks are going to rest. 



BOCCONIA (Plumb Poppy). — A 

 genus of tall glaucous herbs or shrubs 

 having yellow or orange-red juice, lobed 

 leaves, and numerous small flowers in 

 terminal panicles, each branch and 

 branchlet of which is furnished with a 

 bract. Sepals 2. Petals none. Stamens 

 many. 



B. cordata {B. japoniea; Maeleaya 

 yedoensia). — A handsome and stately 

 Chinese perennial 5-8 ft. high, with large 

 glaucous deeply veined Fig-like leaves. 

 The small buff or cream-coloured flowers 

 are produced in great abundance during 

 the summer and look like feathery plumes 

 in the distance. 



Culture and Propagation. — To see this 

 plant to advantage it should be grown by 

 itself in nooks and corners or in beds on 

 the lawn. It is magnificent when grown 

 in deep rich loam, and long after the 

 flowers have passed, the flat pale brown 

 seed pods look very handsome. When 

 gently agitated by the wind they have a 

 very graceful appearance. 



It may be increased by dividing the 

 thickish roots in autumn or spring. 

 Cuttings of the young shoots from the 



o2 



