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A Cultural Color Note on the 

 Oriental Poppy 



IN THE latitude of Boston the fresh pale-green 

 tufts of the Oriental poppy may be discovered 

 in early April, a heartening and lovely sight as the 

 last snows of winter vanish before the spring sun. 

 These have formed in the previous autumn, but 

 so strong is the constitution of this remarkable 

 perennial that it is safe even in such a winter as 

 that of this year. 



Here is a flower which does well in any good 

 garden soil; sunlight is its prime necessity. 

 Equally vital to its well doing is its transplanting 

 only in August or September; therefore, will you, 

 whose eye may light upon this page, take advantage 

 of the months which are now almost upon us, if 

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 flower next June. Until last year, when two or 

 three of the varieties of the Oriental poppy of recent 

 introduction were revealed to me, I was ignorant 

 of the development of this flower. 



"Then felt I as some w T atcher of the skies 

 When some new planet swims into his ken." 



Princess Victoria Luise, that huge bloom of de- 

 licious rosy-salmon color, was a sensation. One 

 who enjoys the delicate suggestion of thin flame 

 should stand before this flower transported with 

 delight. And now the list of one of our leading 

 plantsmen gives us no less than thirty varieties of 

 Oriental poppy, in only five of which the word 

 "scarlet" enters into the color descriptions. All 

 the rest verge upon the salmon, apricot, amaranth, 

 and deep mulberry shades. The fighter colors of these 

 newer poppies are, as has been suggested to me, very 

 like those of the Shirley poppy, and how remarkable 

 to find in the larger, stronger, and more enduring 

 flowers the charming color characteristics of that 

 poppy whose one defect is its ephemeral quality. 



From a color plate in the list of the plantsman 

 just mentioned a very beautiful combination of color 

 should be got by using the rich amaranth Mahony, 

 described as "deep mahogany maroon," but which 

 I should call a blackish mulberry, with Rose Queen, 

 a fine satiny rose-pink. The revolution in color 

 in these poppies transforms them at once into 

 subjects of the greatest interest for the formal gar- 

 den, the garden which precludes the use of scarlet, 

 orange or any deep yellow. The rich darkness of 

 Mahony would be a heavenly sight with the 

 Dropmore anchusa rising back of it. These two 

 should be used alone for a real nobility of effect. 



Some plants are dull in their beginnings; not 

 so with this, for from the first leaflet the lovely 

 form and curve of each leaf is apparent, aside from 

 the rarely good tone of green of the leaf group. 

 To fill the wide spaces of earth which should occur 

 between plants destined for so rapid and so large 

 a growth, tulips are suggested; to follow the poppy 

 bloom and act again as a ground cover, seed of 

 salpiglossis sown early, or of tall marigold, whose 

 foliage and bloom will seem to be in August and 

 early September the only inhabitants of this part of 

 the border or the garden. If the objection be raised 

 that the poppy leaves will shade such seeds in May 

 and June, I reply that it is easy to so stake aside a 

 leaf or two of the poppy in many places as to allow 

 the sun full access to the little seedlings of annuals. 



Michigan. Mrs. Francis King. 



A Possible Salad Plant 



PROBABLY the most common weed in all 

 vegetable gardens is "pusley " or purslane, 

 which according to botanic nomenclature is Por- 

 Maca oleracca. Its pink, fleshy stems bearing 

 small, round, sessile leaves, and radiating, like 

 spokes, from the crown, is known to every gar- 

 dener; and equally well, I presume, its marvelous 

 tenacity of life. I have actually hoed out plants, 

 left them upside down in the full sun, and returned 

 a day or so later to find the roots bending over 

 and entering the soil and preparing to take up their 

 work where it was left off. When the tender 

 stems are freshly gathered and boiled like spinach, 

 they make a vegetable that to my taste is superior 

 to either spinach or dandelion greens. The flavor 

 is more delicate and bears just a hint of sourness 

 faintly suggesting vinegar. 



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