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April, 1914 



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of lawn clippings around plants. This mulch should 

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A Method of Transplanting 

 Poppies 



HOW many amateurs, admirers of the exquisite 

 coloring and fragile charm of the Shirley pop- 

 pies, have been deterred from growing them by the 

 cultural notes in most seedsmen's catalogues? 

 "Sow where they are to remain, as they will not 

 bear transplanting" — and to sow where they are 

 to remain, means, too often, overcrowding or re- 

 morseless thinning out; or, what is even worse, an 

 abundance of plants in one spot and a bare space a 

 foot beyond, where the seed was too thinly scattered 

 or perhaps failed to germinate. To such gardeners 

 it may be of interest to learn that, under proper 

 conditions, the Shirley poppy may be as success- 

 fully transplanted as any other annual. I always 

 sow the seed in shallow boxes and allow the little 

 plants to make several leaves before disturbing them, 

 having discovered that the larger the poppy seedling 

 the better it bears the shock of transplanting, the 

 chief requisites for which are a cloudy day, thor- 

 oughly moistened soil in the bed prepared for them, 

 a kitchen knife, a penknife, and a watering can with 

 a fine rose. Separate the seedlings with the pen- 

 knife, being careful not to cut or snap the long roots. 

 If the soil in the seed box has been thoroughly wet 

 before work is begun, little balls of it will adhere to 

 the delicate poppy roots, supplying nutriment until 

 the plant can reestablish itself. 



With the kitchen knife make a deep slit in the 

 moist earth of the bed, pressing the blade of the 

 knife forward and backward to enlarge the opening. 

 Into this slit insert the poppy root, holding the 

 plant carefully between thumb and forefinger of the 

 left hand, and allow the root to dispose itself nat- 

 urally in the slit. Then with thumb and forefinger 

 of the right hand, press the edges of the opening 

 firmly together and water carefully. Should the 

 following day be hot and sunny, shade the bed with 

 a light cloth or, better, cover the individual plants 

 with strawberry baskets. Transplanted Shirleys 

 make a more vigorous growth and produce more 

 and larger flowers than poppies from seed broad- 

 casted in permanent quarters; nor, if the i work be 

 done skillfully, is there much greater loss in trans- 

 planting than one encounters, from one cause and 

 another, in shifting the most ordinary annual from 

 coldframe or from box to bed. I lose, on an aver- 

 age, about ten plants in a bed of two hundred. 

 These are easily replaced, after a day or so, from 

 the seedbox. The Shirley's distant relatives, the 

 Hunnemannia and the Eschscholzia, may also, but 

 less successfully, be transplanted in the same man- 

 ner. Alpine and Iceland poppies, as also the Ori- 

 ental type and its hybrids, having a larger root 

 system, transplant readily by the ordinary method 

 of handling perennials. Have any of The Garden 

 Magazine readers grown the blue Himalayan 

 poppy and will it withstand New England winters? 

 Also, is it blue? 



Massachusetts. Elizabeth Heerick. 



[Editors' Note. — The blue poppy (Meconopsis) is 

 a deep violet blue, as we have seen it growing in 

 Europe. We have never met it in this country; it 

 may thrive in Oregon, however.] 



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