(1834â1908), Dutch ophthalmologist. Snellen was director of an eye clinic at Utrecht. In 1862 he introduced a test for measuring the acuteness of vision which consisted of printed letters or words in type of various sizes.
The poppy of wartime remembrance is Papaver rhoeas, the red-flowered corn poppy. This poppy is a common weed in Europe and is found in many locations, including Flanders, which is the setting of the famous poem In Flanders Fields by the Canadian surgeon and soldier John McCrae.
I got some poppy starts from a very old lady in Oregon. They were tall and beautiful pink poppy's. I had them for years and didn't know they were opium poppies until I saw a documentary on Discovery about growing opium and went out and looked at mine and sure enough that's what they were.