116 GAEDEN FLOWERS. ■. 



(Papaver orientale,) which was first found by 

 Tournefort in Armenia, and soon dispersed 

 throughout Europe, by the seeds Avhich he sent 

 to the Garden of Plants at Paris. It is of the 

 most dazzHng colour, and on summer evenings 

 bright flashes of light have been seen to ema- 

 nate from its fire-coloured flowers. The large 

 bracted poppy {Papaver hracteatimi) is no less 

 splendid a plant, and is noAV very generally 

 cultivated. It is a native of Siberia. 



Some pretty delicate poppies, called carnation 

 poppies, are in flower by the end of the month, 

 and continue blooming till August. So frail 

 are they, that it seems as if a shower or a rude 

 wind -would scatter them all away, yet, like the 

 delicate cobweb wdth which the spider en- 

 wreaths the hedges, the light shower of summer 

 only brightens them by its spangles, and the 

 soft Avinds only rufile them to display their 

 beauty. Still, however, they are frail flowers, 

 even where all are frail ; and a long-continued 

 rain will so beat them down, that they cannot 

 rise after it. Sometimes they are like white 

 gauze ; again they glow in brightest scarlet, or 

 deepest crimson ; or their white petals are 

 traced with a blush-coloured streak, or edged 

 with a rim of rose colour. These are all vari- 

 eties, produced by culture, from the common 

 poppy of our cornfield. 



The yellow poppy, often called Norway poppy, 

 {Papiavev nudicaule,) with its bright orange-co- 

 loured flowers, is very handsome, and has a sweet 

 fragrance. It is a native of Siberia and Eussia. 



