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ful or roguish faces look up to you with so much 

 apparent intelligence that it is hard to believe it is 

 all a pathetic fallacy and there is nothing there." 



Whether the modern pansies should be included 

 in a Shakespeare garden is a question for each owner 

 of a garden to decide ; but there should certainly be 

 a goodly number of the little " Johnny- Jump-Ups." 



POPPY (Papaver somniferum). Shakespeare 

 introduces the poppy only indirectly when he 

 speaks of the "drowsy syrup" in "Othello." The 

 white poppy is the flower from which the sleeping 

 potion was made. "Of Poppies," says Parkinson, 

 "there are a great many sorts, both wild and tame ; 

 but our garden doth entertain none but those of 

 beauty and respect. The general known name to all 

 is Papaver, Poppie. Yet our English gentlewomen 

 in some places call it by name Joan's Silver Pin. 

 It is not unknown, I suppose, to any that Poppies 

 procureth sleep." Other old names for the poppy 

 were Corn Rose and Cheese Bowl. 



Scarlet poppies in the wreath of Ceres among the 

 wheat-ears, scarlet poppies .mingled with large 

 white-petaled daisies, and Ragged Robins belong to 

 everybody's mental picture of midsummer days. 



"We usually think of the Poppy as a coarse 

 flower," says Ruskin, "but it is the most transparent 



