. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 136 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. a lot of single scarlet poppies separate from th(jse of any other color, except it be white; all the dainty light colored ones will be injured by the proximity of red. The so-called Tulip poppy is rather a novelty than a beauty. The cup- shaped flower is certainly like a tulip, but there is little advantage in the resemblance of one flo
. The beautiful flower garden, its treatment with special regard for the picturesque. Written and embellished with numerous illustrations by F. Schuyler Mathews. With notes on practical floriculture by Fewkes. Floriculture. 136 THE BEAUTIFUL FLOWER GARDEN. a lot of single scarlet poppies separate from th(jse of any other color, except it be white; all the dainty light colored ones will be injured by the proximity of red. The so-called Tulip poppy is rather a novelty than a beauty. The cup- shaped flower is certainly like a tulip, but there is little advantage in the resemblance of one flower â ^iO- ^° another ; the real attraction in the tulip poppy is in its gracefulness and color- ^'^ strength; certainly the latter is remarkable, and a large grouj) of the intense red flowers is a beautiful accession to the gar- den. After all, the real beauty of a garden is quite dependent ui)on the individual beauty of its flowers. I do not care how charming the ar- rangement of the garden itself may be, when my eyes must rest on common- place and poor varieties of flowers. One may pass a host of common, single, scarlet poppies, but they must pause before a single speci- men of the variety called " Fai ry ; I have before my eyes, as I write, four transcendently beautiful poppies of this name ; and I wonder in the immediate presence of such loveliness, what a garden would be without the possession of it! Well, that is a question. Beauty when it exists in a rose, is finite; we. The Fairy Blush. The 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 Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Fewkes, A. H. Philadelphia W. A. Burpee
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