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The Tragical Kitchen Gardiner, 



Of the The poppy, papaver y is alfo an annual 

 f^PPy- that is fown in the phyfick garden, on 



account of its many very extraordinary 



qualities. 



The derivation of the word papaver 

 is from ixy^acov a fj.'/i zivciv, qtiod ejus ufus 

 vimitm infrigidet flnpore^n adferat^ as 

 the editors of the Oxford catalogue teli 

 us. There are three fpecies of this pop- 

 py, that are of ufe in the purpofes we 

 are now upon, viz. papaver Rkaas, 

 Ger.p.^7^- Tark.s66. red poppy, or 

 corn-rofe 5 but this fprings up as it were 

 fpontaneoufly amonglf corn, and is what 

 in the country they call red weed, on 

 account of its red flowers, and which is 

 indeed almoft, if not quite, equal to any 

 of the others (that growing in Turkey 

 excepted) the gardiner need not trouble 

 himfelf with the raifing it in the gar- 

 den. 



The two other kinds are the papaver 

 cornictdatum lateum, and papaver corni-- 

 adattm rubritm, the yellow and red 

 horned poppies, figur'd and defcrib'd by 

 Gerardy p. ^77- and Tarkinfon, p. 262. 

 which require to be fown in the fpring, 

 as others of this clafs do. There is al- 

 fo a fniall kind that makes a pretty fi- 



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