CO CULTIVATED VEGETABLES. 



sons, declared to the citizens of Gabii, whom 

 his father was then besieging, that he was at 

 variance with their imperious enemy, and 

 coming before them with his body all man- 

 gled and bloody with stripes, he was easily 

 believed and admitted to their councils, 

 where he was considered as oppressed by 

 the tyranny of his father, and soon gained 

 the command of their armies. Having so 

 far succeeded, he sent a messenger to Tar- 

 quin, who returned no answer to his son, 

 but, having drawn the messenger into the 

 royal garden, he there cut off the heads of 

 all the tallest poppies with his stick. On 

 the return of his emissary, Sextus demanded 

 the success of the interview, and on learning 

 what his father had done in the garden, he 

 followed the example, by putting to death all 

 the most noble and powerful Gabians; and 

 thus did the town fall into the hands of the 

 Romans, who afterwards drove this odious 

 family of the Tarquins from the throne and 

 the city. 



Pliny says, the seeds of the white garden 

 poppy were served up with honey at ban- 

 quets, and made into biscuits and comfits, 

 and that the country-people glazed their 

 bread with the yolk of eggs, and then strewed 



