Some Experiments of L^uther Burhank 



completely absent. This hybrid poppy is tall and 

 generally branches like the opium poppy. It is 

 perennial, although its pistillate or seed ancestor 

 is a short-lived annual. This red poppy can even 

 be divided at the root and multiplied like the 

 perennial oriental poppy. These hybrids have 

 generally a dark mark at the base of the scarlet 

 petals as in the oriental poppy; in some the leaves 

 are smoothish and glaucous, as in the opium 

 poppy; in most, deep green and hairy, more as 

 in the other. Many flowers have their stems 

 coalescent with that of the neighboring flower. 



' ' These second generation hybrid poppy plants 

 unexpectedly all proved to be perennials, and are 

 now making a tremendous growth; the clusters 

 of foliage of some of them are fourteen to eighteen 

 inches across already. Among this second gener- 

 ation hybrid lot of poppies each single plant seems 

 to be different from every other plant in the lot 

 and strange to say the leaves now resemble not 

 only poppy leaves, but celandine, various thistles, 

 primroses, turnips, mustards and numerous other 



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