. POPPIES Annual Poppies should be sown as early in the spring as possible where they are to remain, as they do not stand transplanting. Sow very thinly, preferably in cloudy weather or after a shower, barely cover the seed, press down firmly and they will come up in a few days. If they come up too thickly they must be thinned out to stand 3 to 4 inches or more apart if you wish best results. It is well to make several sowings at intervals to keep up a succession of bloom. If picked just before expanding the flowers will last several days. It is also advisable to pick the old flowers as soon a
. POPPIES Annual Poppies should be sown as early in the spring as possible where they are to remain, as they do not stand transplanting. Sow very thinly, preferably in cloudy weather or after a shower, barely cover the seed, press down firmly and they will come up in a few days. If they come up too thickly they must be thinned out to stand 3 to 4 inches or more apart if you wish best results. It is well to make several sowings at intervals to keep up a succession of bloom. If picked just before expanding the flowers will last several days. It is also advisable to pick the old flowers as soon as fallen, which will lengthen the blooming season quite a while. Single Annual Poppies PER PKT. 3696 Dreer's Select Shirley. JMs is an unusually choice strain of these charming Poppies, and is, we feel sure, better than any heretofore sent out. The artistic flowers are mostly single, but occasionally semi-double, and range in color from the purest snow-white through all the delicate tints of pink, rose and carmine to the deepest crimson and blood-red, with a liberal sprinkling of the newest salmony shades, while many flowers are daintily edged and striped; in fact, so varied are they that scarcely any two flowers are exactly alike, j oz., 25 cts.; oz., 75 cts 10 3684 3686 3687 3688 3693 3695 3699 3700
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