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handsomer variation Calycanthcma, cup- 
and-saucer. It must not be forgotten that 
the Canterbury bell is a biennial and that 
seed of it must be sown every year. It is 
so beautiful, however, that few who have 
once enjoyed it in their gardens, grudge 
the labor of sowing a few seeds of it every 
spring. The campanulas should be had, 
if possible, in variety, as many of them 
bloom at a period when little else besides 
spiraeas ancl the oriental and Iceland pop¬ 
pies are in bloom. 
The Iceland poppy, like the crocus and 
scilla, is the harbinger of spring. Before 
the snow has entirely disappeared, the 
reddish-brown tufts of foliage begin to 
don a spring-like green and little buds, for 
all the world like tiny down-covered 
heads, begin to show. As if by magic 
these little heads shoot up on long, slender 
stems until, as by a preconcerted signal, 
the little caps pop off and a mass of crin¬ 
kly, silky flowers of yellow, scarlet, orange 
and white appear, as cheerful, inspiriting, 
and charming a sight as so many golden 
daffodils, and much more graceful. The 
Iceland poppy is hardy in most localities 
for about three years, but older clumps, 
enfeebled, perhaps, by too persistent flow¬ 
ering — for these little plants are great 
bloomers—often winter-kill. In raising 
Iceland poppies from seed, care must be 
taken to keep the soil in the seed box 
moist, but not wet, as in a heavy wet soil 
the seedlings damp off badly. 
A plant little known in this country, 
though much grown in England, is Meco~ 
nopsis Wallichii, a native of the Sikkim 
Himalayas, and a near relative of the 
poppy family. It is a stately perennial, 
three to four feet high, bearing light blue, 
poppy-like flowers in July and August. 
If the amateur wishes something rare, he 
might try this and its yellow brother, 
Meconopsis iiitegrifolia. Seed of both 
these varieties may be obtained from 
seedsmen in America. 
The number of hardy plants that can 
be easily and satisfactorily grown from 
seed is almost legion, and the writer, no 
less than the gardener, needs to practise 
restraint. The householder has to think 
of individual requirements, of the desir¬ 
able or perhaps necessary location of his 
border, of its possible length and breadth, 
of the need of shade plants, or of those 
that luxuriate in the sun, of tall perennials 
for the background, of dwarf plants to 
edge the grass; but he has a large list to 
choose from and if the directions usually 
printed on seed packets be followed with 
intelligence there is no reason whv he 
should not create a setting for his home 
that will lift it above the ordinary. 
The Naturalizing of a City Man 
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