Opium Poppy

Opium Poppy (Named Hybrids Somniferum) - An annual stately and showy with large flowers, the foliage grey-green, flowers variable in form and color, rank in smell and useless for cutting, but of good effect when grouped boldly. The plants mostly grow 2 to 3 feet high, with single flowers ranging from white to deep crimson, and double ones with heavy scarlet, white, or striped flowers, of great beauty. Good single kinds are Maid of the Mist, white with finely fringed petals; The Bride, also white; Flag of Truce, Miss Sherwood, with pale pink edges; Danebrog, a very handsome flower in scarlet and white; and Mephisto, scarlet and black. The double forms are yet more varied, including those known as the Carnation and Paeony-flowered Poppies, the first with fringed petals, and the second with very full broad ones. Favourite double kinds coming fairly true are Mursellii and Mursellii splendens: Mikado, in white and crimson; Mary Campbell, very full and finely fringed; White Swan, also white; and Cardinal, with fiery red flowers, very large and full, with fringed petals.

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