. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Hardy Oriental Poppies Oriental Poppies should be sown in early spring in the open ground as sood as it is fit to work. The plants disappear during July and August appearing again as soon as the weather gets cool. When this fall growth starts is the time they should be transplanted to their permanent flowering quarters. It is well to mark the places they are planted with a stake to insure the roots against disturbance during their annual resting period. Only a small per- centage of the seedlings of named varieties come true to name; i
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Hardy Oriental Poppies Oriental Poppies should be sown in early spring in the open ground as sood as it is fit to work. The plants disappear during July and August appearing again as soon as the weather gets cool. When this fall growth starts is the time they should be transplanted to their permanent flowering quarters. It is well to mark the places they are planted with a stake to insure the roots against disturbance during their annual resting period. Only a small per- centage of the seedlings of named varieties come true to name; it is therefore necessary to flower all of the plants produced before discarding. per pkt. 3741 Orientals (The Large Oriental Poppy). A charming summer- flowering hardy plant, producing numerous leafy stems about 3 feet high, with large orange scarlet flowers; having a conspicuous black blotch on each petal, exceedingly showy, j oz., 40 cts $0 10 3742 3743 3744 IS IS IS 15 Dawn. A beautiful flesh color. Special pkt., 75 cts Orirlamme. A gorgeous orange-scarlet; very large. Special pkt., 60 cts — Princess Victoria. A beautiful salmony-pink. Special pkt., 60 cts 3745 — Mahoney. Dark crimson maroon shaded mahogany. Special , 75 cts 3746 — Perry's White. Fine satiny white with a crimson maroon blotch at base of each petal 25 3749 Collection. A packet each of the above 6 varieties 75 3750 Oriental Mixed Hybrids. Saved from a large number of named sorts, embracing all of the colors. J oz., 50 cts 15. Double Portulacas Portulaca (Sun Plant) One of our showiest annual plants, of easy culture, thriving best in light loam or sandy soil and exposed sunny situation; the flowers are of the richest colors. Fine for massing in beds, edgings or rock-work, and frequently used to sow broad- cast over sunny banks, etc. Seed should not be sown until the weather is fairly warm and it is well to mix the seed with three or four times its bulk of dry sand or soil, which permits an even and e
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