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known Convolvulus major, the plants commonly grown under 

 that name including the varieties of P. hispida, P. nil, P. 

 hedemcea, and perhaps some others. The colours of the Con- 

 volvulus major are varied : deep purple, violet, light blue, 

 white, pale rose, deep rose crimson, and blue and white 

 striped. This Convolvulus should be sown in April in 

 patches, round a post or pillar, or at the foot of a stump of a 

 tree, or where it can be provided with tall branchy stakes on 

 which to twine, for the plant will grow ten feet high, and in 

 season be covered with bloom. It is, however, characteristic of 

 the plant to close its llowers during rains or in very cloudy 

 weather, and at the approach of night. The varieties seed 

 freely ; but, as the seeds soon shed after ripening, a good look- 

 out must be kept for the pods. It may also be sown in pots 

 in March, and kept in frames till May, and then planted out. 

 They like a light rich soil. The other annual species require 

 exactly the same management. A strong-growing somewhat 

 shrubby species, P. Learii, is too handsome to be here 

 omitted, though it requires a stove or warm greenhouse. It 

 is a plant which grows and flowers well, provided it has room 

 to extend its branches, and nourishment to support them : it 

 likes a strongish rich loamy compost. 



PHASEOLUS. Kidney Bean. [Leguminosae, § Papilio- 

 nacese.] Twining plants, some annual and hardy, others 

 require stove heat. P. multifiorus, the well-known Scarlet- 

 runner Bean, deserves notice as a flower-garden plant from 

 its showy appearance when in blossom. It is a plant well 

 adapted for covering summer-houses and temporary trellises, 

 and is more or less ornamental from June to October. The 

 seeds should be sown where the plants are required in the 

 month of March. 



PHEASANT'S EYE. See Adonis. 



PHILADELPHUS. Mock Orange, or Syringa. [Phila- 

 delphaceae.] Ornamental deciduous flowering shrubs. Con- 

 fusion sometimes arises from the fact that the common name 

 of this shrub, Syringa, is the same word as the botanical 

 name of the Lilac tree ; and as both are shrubs, often intro- 

 duced into gardens and shrubberies from their free-flowering 

 qualities, the confusion is attended with inconvenience. The 

 plants are widely difi;erent. The Lilac [Syringa vulgaris), as 



