+ RN SER ea eae ME cod ae Fe ee ete LG aE 
bat ems SOURS Ey Go ae ak a ae oN sai a 
a Sia a ae ae aa > : sis a Se ae : 
are all the Offipring of one common Kind: 
‘this, which Authors have called Papaver flore 
‘pleno laciniato? 
Poppy ; 
the double jagged flowered 
fome’ Papaver difetium: the ragged 
Poppy; and our Gardeners not improperly, 
the Feathered Poppy, rifes together with the 
preceding, from the Seed of the common great 
Garden Kind, to which we have referred that, 
and differs in little more than the Structure of 
the Flower. | 
-. The Root is. large, long, white, and hung 
with Fibres. 
‘The Stalk is a Yard or more in Height, and 
the Leaves are of a greyifh or blueifh saree 
oblong, and cut at the Edges. 
The Flowers are large, and confummately beau- 
tiful. 
tals, which are cut and jagged deeply into many 
Parts at the Edges, and have fomewhat of a fea- 
thered Afpeét. | 
~ Their Colour is naturally a very elegant and 
bright fcarlet, but they are varied in this Refpeét 
without Limitation: they are fometimes blotched, 
and often elegantly ftreaked with purple and with 
white. 
The Bafes of thefe Petals are naturally white, 
as thofe of the other are blackifh; and there is 
ufually more or lefs of the white mixed with 
great Elegance in the whole Flower. 
The whole Plant in this, and in the other 
Kind, as in the common white Poppy, abounds 
with a bitter Juice of an opiate Smell. 
They are compofed of numerous long Pe-. 
_ The Plant is a Native of the fouthern Parts of 
Europe; and flowers wild, but with no great 
Beauty in waite Grounds, in many Parts of Eng- 
land, where fcattered Seeds from Gardens have 
accidentally fallen, — 
From this Plant, ie ot in its common State 
| has a fingle Flower with pale Petals, whofe Bafes 
are dark or blackifh; Culture has raifed the in- 
numerable Varieties with which our Gardens a- 
bound, and of which thefe are the two. prin- 
cipal. 
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July. Stalk in part at the Bafe, and they are long, hollow, obtufe, ‘and of fhort Duration. July. 
——_—— broad, and jagged at the Edges. - The four Petals which in this fimple State com- 
The Flowers ftand at the Tops of the main | pofe the Flower, are broad, large, and expand- 
“Stalk and Branches, and they are-very large and | ed; and two are fmaller than the others, and 
fpecious. They naturally confift of four large new alternately. =: 
‘Petals: in the Middle of which, as in the Ane- In the Cente {tand numerous, fhort, and 
mones, rife Multitudes of fmaller cluftered toge- | lender Filaments - . ‘crowned with oblong, obtufe, 
ther in various Manners, and in different. Num- ccomprefied, and upright Buttons. Thiele furround 
bers, according to the — of Culture and | 4 large, roundifh Rudiment of a Fruit; on which, 
Accidents, of Growth, without any intermediate aa refts 4 | flat radi- 
~The Colour isa i violet nee very full, | ated Head like a Shield. | 
‘rich and elegant. The Bafes: of the large outer | The Filaments he will find inferted on ic 
Petals are deepeft, and the Colour ee) itfelf Receptacle; and this with’ their Number fhews 
in a paler Tint throughout. | the Plant one of the Polyandria, the linge Style 
The finaller inner Petals are of a paler Hue, | one of the Monogynia. — 
and often. variegated with red and white, with | ‘The Rudiment ripens into a large round Seed-. 
Streaks or Blotches of a purple, fo deep that it veffel, covered with the Head, and opening by 
is nearly black. In this, Culture makes vaft many Apertures under it. “In this are numerous 
Variation; but to the Botanical Student we | Seeds in a fingle Cavity, but feparated in part 
are ‘to obferve, that the Chara¢ters of the Clafs by many Ridges from the Sides of the Head, — 
muft be fought in the fingle, plain, and fimple The Culture of this being the fame with that _ 
Flower. 7 ae | of the fucceeding Kind, we fhall give them toge- 
He will find this at firft fupported by a flight, | ther. | 
though large Cup, formed of two oval Leaves, ! 
6. FEATHERED “POPPY. 
ey ae We have ‘told the Student that igs va- oe eee aa oe ge 0H 
| Fig. 6. rious Garden Poppies of this large Species, 3 Culture of shel Poppizs. || 3 
Let the Carlene? obferve that we fpeak here 
only of the tall large Garden Poppies; for thofe 
{mall Kinds which are called Dwarf Poppies, are 
the Offfpring of the common wild red Poppy of 
our Corn Fields, ‘treated i in the fame Manner. 
All the Varieties of - which we have fpoken 
here, are to be obtained from Seeds ; and there 
will rife from every Sowine 
naged, many others: the Colouring will vary 
without Bounds; and after repeated Sowing of 
good Seeds, there will be many Flowers obtained 
{carce inferior to Carnations: The Method to be 
obferved is this : 
When the Plants are in Flower, let the fineft 
of them be marked for Seed ; 
only three Heads ripen on one Plant. Let them 
{tand upon the Plant till they are very well har- 
g, when properly ma- 
dened, and then be taken off and laid on a a paper d 
Shelf. 
When they have lain there three Weeks, at a 
and upon thefe lec 
Diftance 
