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Papaver somniferum

Aug. 5' 4˚ P.m. removed bloom from 5 young pods & peduncles in greenhouse & marked with white wool. Also 5 pods of nearly same size marked with black thread for comparing

Some large & some small — removed bloom with damp sponge. —

Aug 7th 12˚ 35. I find all 3 pods with much bloom on them; cleaned them carefully again with brush under stigma.

12˚ 40' cleaned a 4th pod; marked with black & white wool.

Aug. 9th 10˚ 45. one of the pods which was recleaned on the 7th at 12˚. 35', has now some bloom on it again, as I wiped it, & made a green stripe.

Aug. 13th One Pod white wool has nearly as much bloom, as those which have never been rubbed; a second has a good deal

Aug 5. 5˚ P.m. Marked 4 & 4 in same way on plants out of doors.

August 7th some bloom had returned for when I rubbed pod with finger much greener, but not so much as in Greenhouse)

(—Aug 8th 8 A.m Recleaned 3 of pods, (& left 1 others in former state) marked black & white wool): also cleaned 2 fresh pods, white wool & black thread.—

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Ether instantly removed bloom; waving for 1' in water at 104° did not do so. —

(Aug 19th 2 of pods with white wool have now so much bloom it cd hardly be told that the bloom had ever been wiped off. — The bloom not nearly so well removed on plants out of doors)

Aug. 29th 4˚ P.m In greenhouse there are six pods with bloom removed & more or less renewed & stigma & peduncle was at same time cleaned, & now the radiating stigmatic surfaces are brown, whilst all those of uncleaned pods are pale green. But it very odd that the pods on plant s out of doors have their stigmas, both cleaned & uncleaned equally dry.

I rather suspect peduncles of those out of doors are rather browner. —

Sept. 21. compared pods, not perfectly mature, in greenhouse & out of doors, which had been cleaned & with bloom — perhaps peduncles a shade browner.

Put those on plant out of doors to dry in window — white wool cleaned pods.

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