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HENDERSON’S PICTURESQUE GARDENS 
A Wild Garden of Poppies 
A large mass of annual Poppies in the Wild Garden is represented 
below. The waving thousands of scarlet, white, pink and variegated, 
single, double and semi -double blossoms produced a gorgeous color 
effect, as may be imagined. Before the seeds were sown the ground 
was first run over with a harrow; the seeds were then broadcasted, 
like grass seed, at the rate of about one pound per acre early in 
the spring. The plants commenced flowering in June, and produced 
an unfailing succession of blossoms until late in the summer. 
Alpine Edelweiss 
One of the prettiest hardy 
little plants for rocky situa- 
tions in the Wild Garden or 
rockery is the Edelweiss. Its 
''everlasting” flowers are much 
sought after by tourists in its 
native haunts all through the 
Alps, which fact, perhaps, is 
the cause of the prevailing 
impression that the Edelweiss 
can be grown nowhere else. 
Fortunately such is not the 
case, for it 
thrives in per- 
f e c t i o n on 
rocky hillsides 
in light 
soil and 
sunny 
places. 
Flowers 
lovely. 
