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are the pure scarlet (double and single), and a very double 
variety with the flowers somewhat variegated. These are the 
most desirable, but there are a few other species and varieties, 
including a very beautiful dwarf one from the East Indies that 
is almost too tender for our climate out-of-doors" but is largely 
grown on the Continent as a window plant. 
pontewater, see apple, 
popeving, see pear. 
E>oppp. 
Not Poppy or Mandragora, 
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, 
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep 
Which thou ownedst yesterday,— Othello, iii. 3, 330. 
The Poppy had of old a few other names, such as Cornrose 
and Cheese-bowls (a very old name for the flower), and being 
“ of great beau tie, although of 
evil smell, our gentlewomen doe 
call it Jone Silverpin.” This 
name is difficult of explanation, 
even with Parkinson’s help, who 
says it meanes “faire without 
and foule within,” but it probably 
alludes to its gaudy colour and 
worthlessness. But these names 
are scarcely the common names 
of the plant, but rather nick¬ 
names ; the usual name is, and 
always has been, Poppy, which 
is an easily traced corruption 
from the Latin paparnr , the 
Saxon and Early English names being variously spelt, popig 
and pctpig, popi and papy ; so that the Poppy is another instance 
