Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1906-05-16
CONCERNING THE POPPY.
Having Tap Roots, They Do Not Bear
Transplanting-The Beauty OF
Various Varieties.

The glorious and gaudy army of
poppies make brave marshalling I'M
der midsummer sun. There Is no
horal sight more brilliant In color
than garden OF peoples In full bloom.
The petals are 50 thin and delicate no
insect can alight on them, and the
transitory nature OF the bloom has
caused the flower to be used by the
poets TO point the brief endurance
or the joys OF the senses. But like
JOY. they're worth having even IL they
don't last long. and no garden Is COM
plete without them.
Poppies have tap-roots and seeds
must be sowed where the plants are
TO bloom. And they will bloom any
where. Any place which would ordi-
narily be occupied by woods may be
safely given over to poppies. There
are many kinds-the Shirley. Iceland
Alpine. Oriental, California-and they
are all good: they are double. single.
fringed, tall and short. annual and
perennial, and they're all worth while.
Shirley peoples are perhaps the fa-
vorite. They are SO daintily. delicate
~ beautiful as TO merit the term
sometimes applied TO them, fairy
flowers" The Iceland peoples are
rather more robust: they are classed
as perennial, but like hollyhocks. the
seed should be sowed every second
year. In this species are to be had
the most splendid yellow flowers OF the
poppy family-if we except the Esch-
scholtzia, which does not actually be-
An
mon poppy. Iceland peoples will bloom
the first season from seed II started
in the hotbed or house: the colors are
white, yellow and orange.
TO my mind the single poppies are
FAR more beautiful than the double
varieties, though many admire the
Dig, peony-fiavored kinds. some OF
which have their petals cut and
frlnged In fantastic fashion. They
are certainly very snowy in the gar
den, as they stand fully three feet
high, and give large, imposing flow
ers, often five or six inches across
produced in early summer.
The eschscholtZia. or California pop
Ply. loves the sun and stands heat
like little salamander. 1t, too. should
be sown where II is to flower. II
blooms freely and keeps It up all
summer. All the poppies bloom more
continuously II cut freely. They are
not generally much esteemed as cut
flowers. but If cut early in the morn
Ing, just as they are about to unfold.
they Will open and last several days.
and new buds Will soon replace those
cut. The Iceland poppies are most
esteemed for this purpose, and will last
In favoring conditions for four or
five days.
Poppy seed Is very fine and difficult
to SOW thinly enough in consequence.
a good plan Is to mix the contents
OF a packet OF seed with teacupful
OF sand and scatter 1t on soil that has
been raked mellow and fine, then press
IL In with a board. Sow as soon as
the ground is At. When the seed
lings appear thin them so they will
stand about foot apart. If peoples
are crowded they will throw I'D a
few slender stems bearing few flow
ers; given room, they branch freely
and produce more flowers and for
longer time. 1t has been said that
poppy seed sowed in August gives
richer-colored flowers than that sowed
In the spring.-Michigan Farm and
Live Stock.