Battle Creek, Mich. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES 
CULTURE 
The chief requirement of this most striking plant is that it should be moved 
only after the beginning of the dormant season about the first of August, and from 
then until the ground freezes in the fall. It is important in transplanting that the 
plant be set deep enough to place the crowns three inches below the surface. It is 
well also, to set the plants at an angle of 45 degrees or more so that water will not 
be trapped by the hollow crowns of large plants. After planting, the ground should 
not be allowed to dry out before the roots become established. After the ground 
freezes, a light covering of straw or coarse litter should be placed over the ground 
to prevent the plants from being heaved out by alternate freezing and thawing 
which, in our experience, is the most common cause of winter killing. Plants also 
may be killed by planting where water will stand over the crowns in winter, or by 
cutting off the crowns after growth starts in the spring. Direct contact of air or of 
water with the crowns are the most frequent causes of failure with poppies. Special 
care should be taken immediately after the blooming season to see that exposed 
crowns are well covered with fresh earth. 
The plants like full sun, but do well in partial shade, especially certain of the 
darker colored varieties. Plant about two feet apart. 
Spring planting by April 15 may prove successful if special care is given. 
SIZE OF PLANTS 
Prices except as noted are for LARGE, FIELD GROWN PLANTS, AT LEAST 
TWO YEARS FROM PROPOGATION. Some nurseries claim that pot-grown plants 
give entirely satisfactory results. Other extensive nurseries agree with us that they 
are much inferior, and that large, field-grown plants not only are much more likely 
to live and grow well, but also that in the great majority of cases they bloom earlier 
and more generously. 
The wonderful blooms make excellent cut flowers if the freshly cut stems 
are immediately singed at the cut surface, or plunged at once into boiling water for 
a moment or two, and then placed in cold water. 
A capital R. before the color in description of Oriental Poppies indicates that 
the color values are those found in “ Color Standards and Nomenclature ” by Ridgway. 
New Poppies, mostly imported, of which as yet we have no adequate description. 
We do not offer them for sale this year. 
Dazzler 
Fire Fly 
Flashy Glow (Neeley) 
^ Orange Glow 
Red Cap 
★ Lady Haig 
Orange-scarlet to Scarlet Group 
Any one at 50 cents each; 3 for $1.00. 
Brightness 
Duke of Teck 
Excelsior 
Giant 
Goliath 
Goldschmidt 
Grand Mogul 
Menelik 
Orange Beauty 
Orange Queen 
Orientale 
Oriflamme 
Rembrandt 
Royal Scarlet 
Sunny Jim 
Geranium Pink, R. varieties, the old favorite Salmon Pink 
of ■which Mrs. Perry is the type. 
Any in this group at 50 cents each; 3 for $1.00. 
Edna Perry Pink Beauty 
Gerald Perry Prinzess Viktoria Luise 
. Jeannie Mawson Spotless 
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