Battle Creek, Mich. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES 
few newer ones each year, or perhaps only one or tw r o very choice sorts, and it 
won’t be long before your garden will be the talk of the town and perhaps of the 
country for miles around. Try it! 
SPECIAL 
Send us, with your order of $1.00 or more, the names and addresses of only 8 
(more if you wish) friends who make flower gardens, and we w r ill send you a fine 
named Iris of our own selection. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES AND HOW TO GROW THEM, by Roy V. 
Ashley. This is a new 8 page leaflet, v r ell illustrated, No. GF 1, published 
by Better Homes and Gardens, Des Moines, Iow r a, or may be ordered from 
us. Price 6c. 
ORIENTAL POPPIES 
We have the honor to be a member of a volunteer national committee, organized 
in 1932, for the classification and scoring of named Oriental Poppies. The original 
committee consisted of the late Dr. J. H. Neeley, for many years the peer of 
American poppy hybridizers, Mr. Karl K. Lorenz and Mr. John D. Siebenthaler, of 
Dayton, Ohio, and the writer. Recently there have been added to the committee, 
Roy M. Burke, of Paulding, Ohio; A. E. Curtis, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dr. Leon A. 
Leonian, of Morgantown, W. Ya. The results of the committee’s work will appear 
from time to time in various gardening publications. 
We believe that the vogue of the Oriental Poppj r is just beginning; that w T hen 
its ease of culture, its wide color range and striking charm are better appreciated, 
the demand wull far exceed any commercial supply that now exists. We believe that 
our list of 200 named varieties of Oriental Poppies is the largest offered by any 
grower in this country. 
Plant Oriental Poppies in your garden and enjoy a thrill that perhaps you have 
never before experienced. 
“For dazzling barbaric splendor, the great Oriental Poppies are absolutely 
unrivaled.” The stamens of Poppies are said to be the most beautiful stamens of 
all flowers. The gigantic flowers sometimes reach a diameter of 12 inches or more, 
while a diameter of 9 to 10 inches is common. 
Says Dr. Neeley: “Varying from red to orange, salmon to pink, mulberry to 
white, this barbaric flow’-er offers a wide range of colors, is free from disease, very 
hardy and easy to transplant. Among the family as a w r hole, there is none so regal 
as the Oriental Poppy.” 
Many new hybrid varieties have been introduced in recent years, greatly 
extending the color range and showung much improvement in habit and form. 
In large gardens. Oriental Poppies should be planted by hundreds or even 
thousands, either alone or combined wuth other material, to achieve bold landscape 
effects of startling originality and charm. 
EXTRA SPECIAL OFFER.—With every order received for Oriental 
Poppies at list prices, amounting to $50.00 or more, we will include FREE 
one root of ROYAL ROSE. 
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 loth of July, and from 
then until the ground freezes in the fall. It is important in transplanting that the 
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