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perhaps exceptionally favorable weather 
in that the summer was cool. But I have 
never done it more than once. The fierce 
heat of summer usually retards the devel¬ 
opment of the flowers so that they are 
tiny, if they come at all, and it affects the 
vigor of the plant generally to a consid¬ 
erable degree. 
Give them plenty of moisture except 
during actual winter weather, and bear in 
mind that the finest strains of seed pro¬ 
duce plants which bear the finest flowers. 
No flower can approach the gorgeous 
splendor and wonderful airiness combined, 
which are the attributes of the barbaric 
poppy. The color range may almost liter¬ 
ally be said to be from white to black. 
These are scarlets that blaze like fire; 
lavender and pinks are touched on the 
way; only the blue is omitted. 
Plant poppy seeds where the plants are 
to grow; they have a long tap root and 
transplanting nearly always kills them. 
See to it that they have a background of 
green against which to flaunt their bril¬ 
liance, and put them in sandy loam, in full 
sunlight. Their small seeds should be 
thinly sown broadcast, and the ground 
raked lightly over them, just as with the 
eschscholzia. Mulch them with leaves if 
growth is made before winter sets in: late 
sowing will not give them time for this, 
however. 
The difference which fall sowing makes 
with sweet peas is remarkable and almost 
unbelievable. Instead of growing scrag¬ 
gy and ugly at the bottom the vines stay 
green and thrifty, and the blossoms are 
much earlier, as well as more abundant. 
Locate them where the soil is a clay loam 
if possible—and do not raise them year 
after year in the same place. Dig the 
earth out from a trench one and a half to 
two feet deep and a foot wide, and mix 
bone meal with it. Put back enough to 
fill the trench to within eight inches of 
the top. Sow the seeds in two rows on 
this, then fill on up to the top and firm the 
earth down. By June it is well to draw 
the top soil up about the vines an inch or 
so, but only the top soil ought ever to be 
disturbed. The usual withered and half 
dead condition at the base of the vines is 
due to the burning of the network of roots 
below the hot earth, when the sun is lit¬ 
erally “scorching.” Deep planting, by 
insuring great depth of root, avoids this, 
and it of course insures uniformity of 
moisture. 
Give the vines a trellis between the 
rows or set up brush as soon as the plants 
appear in the spring, for they should have 
an opportunity to climb as soon as the 
first runner shows. Otherwise they grow 
branchy and ugly, distorting themselves 
in the effort to find something to cling to. 
The well-known pheasant’s eye which 
blossoms in June and the Flos Adonis, 
which blossoms during midsummer, are 
members of the same family and have the 
same tastes. A fairly good soil which is 
light rather than heavy, and rather moist, 
suits them; and they will do well in part 
shade or full sun. The seeds germinate 
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