BUSH AND DWARF ESCHSCHLOTZIA (HUNNEMANNIA) 



HE title doesn't sound very interesting, I know, yet it is the 

 name of a very graceful poppy of a lovely golden color, one 



that we see in most of the florists' shops all the year 



around. These long-stemmed, satin-like, fluttering flowers will 

 bloom all Summer in our gardens until freezing time, and then 

 they can be "potted up" and taken indoors where they will enrich 

 sunny casements, or the greenhouse, and these "faithfuls" will 

 bloom and bloom all the intervening months through until Sum- 

 mer comes again. 



Last year I saw jars and vases of them in many of the rooms 

 of the Lowcroft School of Horticulture for Women, and these 

 blooms had been cut from Summer plants that had been potted 

 and brought into the greenhouse the Autumn before. They are 

 handsome j)lants, as their foliage is so silvery-green and lacy; 

 their flowers are about three inches across, are deep-cupped, and 

 of an unusual gold color that is very clear and brilliant. Their 

 form is not unlike that of a May tulip. 



The dwarf Eschschlotzias, or California Poppies, that we all 

 'know and prize, are now appearing in new tints and shades. The 

 most novel one is the sweetest, finest pink — Rosey Queen is its 

 name — and it is well named. It is an incomplete garden that is 

 without them. Broadcast sowing of the seed of these all Summer 

 blooming poppies as borders to espalier grown fruit trees will 

 maintain a flower carpet after the daffiodils have departed, and 

 will save weeding, and besides beautifying, they will conserve the 

 moisture. As a flower border to the shrubbery they are indis- 

 pensable, bringing a cheerful finish that is very pleasing, and, as 

 I said before, the dwarf Eschschlotzias self-sow, therefore, they 



are as valuable as any of our perennial border plants- 



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