. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE POPPY, O more interesting Hower is to be fonnrl in the garden than the poppVj and a certain few kinds are extravagantly beautifulj though Uxmentably short-lived. It is essentially a classic tlower, lia ving from the most early times had a jilace of hononr on the brow of the divine Ceres : for it was not left for the people fif this centnry to discover that poppies love to grow aniong'st the corn. Onr blazing- red poppv, that oftentimes^ as we hnrry along throngli the sun- shine in a railway train, spreads aliroad in she
. Familiar garden flowers . Flowers; Plants, Ornamental; Floriculture. THE POPPY, O more interesting Hower is to be fonnrl in the garden than the poppVj and a certain few kinds are extravagantly beautifulj though Uxmentably short-lived. It is essentially a classic tlower, lia ving from the most early times had a jilace of hononr on the brow of the divine Ceres : for it was not left for the people fif this centnry to discover that poppies love to grow aniong'st the corn. Onr blazing- red poppv, that oftentimes^ as we hnrry along throngli the sun- shine in a railway train, spreads aliroad in sheets, and sngg-ests that we are riding tlirongh lakes of blood or seas of fii-e, according as the light or the fancy may glorify the common-place factâthis scarlet poppy {Pajxiver rJifPax) is, in some re(?pectSj distinct from the classic poppy, for it has an nrn-shaped capsule, whereas the classic P"PPy {Pâ ^"iiii'[f''i'i'iii), which is the common field flower of Greece, has a roundish capsule, and the flowers are as com- T. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hibberd, Shirley, 1825-1890; Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909. London : Cassell
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