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ESCHSCHOLTZIA CROCEA. 
(saffron-coloured kschscholtzia.) 
CLASS. 
ORDER. 
POLYANDRIA. 
MONOGYNIA. 
NATURAL ORDER. 
PAPAVERACE^. 
Generic Character. — Calyx, of one leaf. Corolla, consisting of four petals. Capsules round, and 
ten-ribbed. 
Specific Character. — Perennial. Leaves glaucous, bipinnatifid. Calyx long, more slender than that 
of Californica. Corolla, dark orange, very showy. 
The flowers of this beautiful perennial are of a much richer colour than those of 
the well-known E. californica, which make so splendid a show on our flower borders 
from the beginning- of July to the end of October, or beginning of November. 
Our plants appear to bear the weather as well as that species, and, from what we 
have already experienced of their habit, will, no doubt, require the same treatment, 
which may be briefly stated as follows : — 
1. Propagation may be elfected either by seeds or by division, but the best 
plants are always produced by seeds. 
2. Always sow the seeds as soon as they are ripe ; this is preferable to keeping 
them until the following spring, for, in doing so, many lose their vegetating power ; 
and a crop of plants is seldom raised. 
3. Always select a light dry soil for the purpose and a somewhat sheltered situa- 
tion, and the young plants will stand the winter without any protection. 
4. It is better to sow the seeds at once in the open ground, where the 
plants are intended to flower; this is preferable to sowing them in pots, and 
afterwards transplanting them, in consequence of the peculiar construction of their 
roots. When transplanted, they are long before they commence growing again. 
5. When the seedlings are of a proper size, thin them out where too thick, and 
they will require no more attention except keeping free from weeds. 
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