June 23, 1888. 
THE GARDENING WORLD. 
681 
amongst the most noble and elegant of foliage or hardy- 
plants. 
These Giant Poppies are easily raised from seed, but 
a fine strain should be obtained. There are now various 
paler hues, but none are so striking as the rich crimson- 
scarlet hues of the deeper-coloured ones. Would that 
we could induce this noble border flower to become 
double, like the old double Pmonies, as the flower 
would then be more enduring. If Papaver brac- 
greenery about us during May and June, some rich 
colouring from flowers is especially welcome.— A. D. 
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AMARYLLIS CONQUEROR. 
Great improvements continue to be made amongst the 
garden forms of Amaryllis—botanically more correctly 
termed Hippeastrum. Conqueror taken all round must 
be considered as the largest and finest of all modern 
bore three flowers on a stem about 2 ft. in height, and, 
therefore, well above the strap-shaped, leathery foliage, 
which develops a little later than the flower-stem, so that 
by the time the blooms are expanded the foliage is also 
well advanced. Both the outer and inner series of seg¬ 
ments are broad, as may be seen from our illustration, and 
greatly imbricated. The perianth on the whole is of a 
uniform brilliant scarlet, with a short, broad, six-rayed, 
greenish white star, which is made all the more pro- 
Amap.yllis Conqueror. nat. size. 
teatum gives us the deeper hue, it seems hardly so free 
as P. orientale. We have no Poppy which gives colour so 
glorious and fiery as does Papaver umbrosum, but that 
is only an annual, although it may be treated as a 
biennial; still, a big clump of that gives a cloud of 
colour, which hardly anything else can equal. 
All the forms of the Iceland Poppy are lovely, and 
especially the soft pink flesh and Apricot tints. A 
garden might be made to look wondrous gay with 
Poppies alone for some considerable part of the summer, 
and in our usually cold climate, with so much of 
hybrids. The improved strain has mostly been 
obtained by cross-breeding from Leopoldi and Empress 
of India, which were themselves hybrids originally, 
exhibiting characters and desirable points of great 
importance. The latter is still greatly esteemed and 
grown in quantity. The variety under notice has a 
bold and striking appearance, owing to its great size 
and the shortness of the tube, which allows the flower 
to flatten itself out, exhibiting all parts to the best 
advantage. The specimen figured (which flowered this 
season for the first time in Messrs. Yeitch’s collection) 
minent by the flattened or spread-out character of the 
flower. It is, therefore, more entitled to the name 
Hippeastrum or Knight’s Star, than the original wildings 
or unaltered species. 
Ononis rotundifolia. —For a dry position this 
Rest Harrow is a valuable plant. It is a dwarf shrub¬ 
like species, growing about 18 ins. high, with bright 
rose-coloured flowers ; the large petal (standard) is 
slightly veined with a darker shade of colouring. A 
stock of this species can easily be raised from seed, the 
plants flowering the second year after sowing. 
