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New Principles of Gardening. 
is furnamed of Diofcorides aye, ot Wild, andis, as he faith, 
called pos, becaufe Opium is gather'd from it. But the black 
Garden Poppy is called Papaver fativum nigrum, 
z. Their Defcription. 
The Leaves of the white Poppy are of a very irrecular Form, 
being long, broad, fmooth, and cut or jagged on their Edges. 
very much, and of a very light green Colour. 
The Stem or Stalk is very ftreight and brittle, and is very 
often towards the middle divided into two, three, four, or five 
{maller Stalks, each bearing a white Bloffom, which before 
open’d, is enclofed with a foft green Husk, compofed of two 
‘light-colour’d green Leaf-like Skins, or Coats, between which 
the Bloffoms break forth, in which at the very firft appears a 
{mall Head, fet round or adorn’d with a great Number of 
{mall Petals or Thréads, like to a Fringe; which Head, when 
fully perfected, is of a round Form, but fomething flat on the 
upper part, (excepting thofe who are degenerated from the 
true Garden Poppy, which are of a {pheroidical rather than a 
globular Form) whereon is placed a very beautiful Cover or 
Coronet. 
The inward part of the Shell js wonderfully divided into 
many curious Cells, between which its white Seeds are genc- 
rated, and are many in Number. Out of one Poppy Head, 
which was produced from one Seed only, Ihave taken up- 
wards of twelve hundred Seeds, and all very found and good. 
The Root runs down in the Ground, like a very fmall Parf- 
nip, with fome few horizontal Roots, breaking from the 
Sides of that which grows downright. When the Heads are be- 
ginning to turn hard, and become almoft dry, ‘tis then that 
they are to be gather’d, which, when ftring’d, are hung up in 
Lines for Ufe. : 
The black Garden Poppy very little differs from the preced- 
ing in its Leaves and Stalks; but the Flowers or Bloffoms are 
not altogether white, they haying a mixture of purple there- 
with, nor are their Heads near fo large as the white Poppy ; 
and whereas the Coronet of the white Poppy is very clofe in 
al! its Parts, fo, on the contrary, the Coronet of the black 
Poppy is open on the lower Parts thereof, through which it 
theds its Seed, which when ripe is of a black Colour, and is 
therefore called the black Poppy. And 
