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“Independence Day’ 
Once a year we set aside a holiday 
and those of us whose spirit years 
cannot dim, are thrilled once more 
with that glorious feeling of national 
freedom. Fortunate, indeed, is he who 
can become, on such a day, a boy again. 
Yet apart from our national indepen- 
dence, how many of us are, in a per- 
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by hand about your house and barn? 
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useful articles. The best time to dust the plants is early morning, as 
RADE. MAR the substance adheres much better when the dew is on. A light dust- 
ing is sufficient, and woe betide the bugs or the larva. Once they geta taste of it they shrivel up right away. 
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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.” 
a great eye in the centre of the flower, but in 
the first-class strain of Shirley poppies there 
should be no black whatever. 
It is very interesting to reflect that the 
gardens of the whole world —rich man’s 
and poor man’s alike — are to-day furnished 
with poppies which are direct descendants 
of one single capsule of seed raised in the 
garden of an English clergyman so recently 
as August, 1880, and the originator’s own 
account of this strain is so interesting that 
I cannot refrain from quoting most of it 
from The Garden, vol. 57, page 385: 
“In 1880, I noticed in a waste corner of 
my garden, abutting on the fields, a patch 
of the common wild field poppy, one solitary 
flower of which had a very narrow edge of 
white. This one flower I marked and saved 
‘the seed of it alone. Next year, out of 
perhaps two hundred plants, I had four or 
five on which all the flowers were edged. 
The best of these were marked and the seed 
saved, and so on for several years, the flowers 
all the while getting a larger infusion of white 
to tone down the red until they arrived at 
quite pale pink and one plant absolutely 
pure white. I then set myself to change the 
black central portions of the flowers from 
black to yellow or white: and having at last 
fixed a strain with petals varying in color 
from the brightest scarlet to pure white, 
with all shades of pink between and all 
varieties of flakes and edged flowers also, 
but all having yellow or white stamens, 
anthers, and pollen, and a white base, I then — 
distributed it freely to all. My ideal is to 
get a yellow P. Rheas, and I have already — 
obtained many distinct shades of salmon. 
The Shirley poppies have thus been obtained 
simply by selection and elimination. 
“Let it be noticed that true Shirley poppies 
(1) are single, (2) always have a white base 
with (3) yellow or white stamens, anthers, 
and pollen, (4) never have the smallest 
particle of black about them. Double 
poppies and poppies with black centres may 
be greatly admired by some, but they are not 
Shirley poppies.” 
If any person has a form approximating 
the one here pictured, I should be glad if 
he would inform me. 
New Jersey. Tuomas McApam. 
[The next article will describe the prickly 
pear which was known in the Middle Ages 
as the fig of India and was cultivated in 
tubs as a wonder of the vegetable world.] 
This Month’s Cover 
aE are a great many single roses 
especially adapted for porch, pillar 
and post decoration which are worthy of 
cultivation, particularly the newer varieties 
giving a great range of color and size of 
flower. Most interesting, perhaps, are the 
hybrids of Rosa Wichuraiana to which the 
modern revival of interest in single roses is 
unquestionably due. One of these hybrids 
is represented on this month’s cover. 
The first roses of this type were raised in 
Rhode Island about 1895. Jersey Beauty 
is the largest flowered, measuring two inches 
or more across. Pink Roamer is somewhat 
smaller. The single H. P. Carmine Pillar 
is unsurpassed for brilliancy of color. 
i 
JuLuy, 1908 
