A Double White Shirley 



One thinks of red as the characteristic poppy color, — par- 

 ticularly if one has seen the poppy growing in an English 

 grain field. But the modified Shirley has been caused to give up its 

 red color, as we have seen; and this picture shows that the 

 white ones, no less than the red, have been induced to 

 produce a multiplicity of petals of greatly modified 

 form and texture. The modification was 

 brought about through selections made 

 in connection with the other 

 lines of improvement of 

 the Shirley poppy. 



