Beautiful Poppies 
to 15 inches high ; the colour typically yellow, 
but varying from pure white to deep red-orange. 
Some of the cream- and lemon-white varieties 
are among the most beautiful and have an ap- 
pearance of great refinement. P. alpinum is 
like a diminutive P. nudicaule ; it may possibly 
be the same plant, only dwarfed by altitude ; 
for it is observed in cultivation that seed sown 
from true P. alpinum produces plants that after 
two or three years’ sowing are not distinguish- 
able from nudicaule. 
Papaver Rheas ( Corn Poppy) ; 2 feet. — 
The garden varieties of this handsome native, 
varying in colour from white to deep red, were 
formerly called French Poppies, but this older 
strain has been superseded by the better one 
known as Shirley Poppies, raised from a wild 
plant and improved by many years’ careful 
selection by the Rev. W. Wilks, by whose 
generous distribution of seed, gardens through- 
out the land have been so greatly benefited. As 
with all annual Poppies, autumn-sown plants 
are the finest. 
Papaver somniferum ( Opium Poppy). — The 
double kinds of these grand plants are well 
known. If it is convenient to give them a place, 
autumn sown, away from other plants, it is 
better to do so, as it has been observed that 
when they are grown in mixed borders they 
appear to have a baneful influence on the per- 
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