. POPPIES Annual Poppies should be sown as early ip 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 inter\-als to keep up a succession of bloom. If picked just before expanding the flowers will last several days. It is also ad\dsable to pick the old flowers as soon
. POPPIES Annual Poppies should be sown as early ip 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 inter\-als to keep up a succession of bloom. If picked just before expanding the flowers will last several days. It is also ad\dsable to pick the old flowers as soon as fallen, which wfll lengthen the blooming season quite a while. Single Annual Poppies perpkt. ', 3696 Dreer's Select Shirley. This 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. 30 inches, i oz., 25 cts.; oz., 75 .$0 10 Dreer's Select Shirley Poppies PER PKT- 3684 American Legion. A greatlj- improved English Scarlet or Flanders Poppj' with very large flowers of dazzling orange scarlet: 2 feet. 30 cts. per i oz $0 10 3686 Charles Darwin. Remarkable for the unique color of its large, smooth-edged flowers, being a striking rich dark purple; with a velvet5' black spot at the base of each petal. A danse g^^^^^-^r^^" wreath of white anthers produces a fine contrast with "^^^^^^^^^ the extraordinarj' color of the flower; 3 feet. \ oz., 20 cts 10 3687 Dainty Lady. Immense flowers 4 to 5 inches across, of a charming mode shade of rosy mauve, with a large dark metallic blotch at the base of each petal; 3 feet. \ oz
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