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to keep them up. This is a very showy flower, 

 and remains in bloom a long while. 



376. PINK. This flower is teo well known 

 to need describing here. There are a great va- 

 riety of sorts, as to the flower ; but all are culti- 

 vated in the same way ; exactly as directed for 

 the Clove, which see. The Pink root will last a 

 great many years ; but, the flower is seldom so 

 fine as the first year of the plant's blowing. 



377. POL YANTHUS. Every thing that has 

 been said of the iuricula (which see) may be 

 said of the Polyanthus. It is a very pretty flow- 

 er, and universally esteemed. It blows finest out 

 of the hot sun. Polyanthuses are best in beds; 

 for a great part of their merit consists of the 

 endless -variety which they present to the eye. 

 The Polyanthus has a delicately sweet smell like 

 that of the Cowslip. 



378. POPPY. A very bad smell, but still is 

 to be sought for on account of its very great va- 

 riety in size, height and iu flower ; and on ac- 

 count of the gayness of that flower. The seed 

 pods of some are of the bulk of a three pounds 

 weight, while those of others are not so big as 

 even a small pea. The smallest, however, con- 

 tains a thousand seeds, and these come up, and 

 the plants flourish, with very little care. A pret- 

 ty large bed, with two or three hundred sorts in 

 it, is a spectacle hardly surpassed in beauty by 



^any thing in the vegetable creation. It is an an- 

 nual, of course. It is well known as a medicinal 

 plant ; but, it is not so well known as a plant 

 from the seed of which sallad-oil is sometimes 

 made! The Germans, on the Rhine, cultivate 

 whole fields of it for this purpose. It may be as 



