164 
Old Time Gardens 
“ Thou say’st an undisputed thing 
In such a solemn way.” 
The truth is, you have very little to do with it. 
That Poppy chooses to keep company with the 
White Lupine, 
and to that im- 
pulse you owe 
your fine gar- 
den effect. The 
Poppy is the 
slyest magician 
of the whole 
garden. H e 
comes and goes 
at will. This 
year a few 
blooms, nearly 
* * 
all in one cor- 
ner ; next year 
a blaze of color 
banded across 
the middle of 
the garden like 
the broad sash 
ofacourt cham- 
Plume Poppy. berlain. Then 
a single grand 
blossom quite alone in the pansy bed, while another 
pushes up between the tight close leaves of the box 
edging : — the Poppy is queer . 
Some flowers have such a hatred of man they can- . 
