PHGENIX. 
P. pildsa grows about one foot in 
height, and produces its pink flow- 
ers in May and June. There are 
about a dozen other species equally 
low in growth and prolific in flow- 
ers in spring or in the beginning of 
summer; and there are a number 
of species which grow from two to 
four feet in height, and flower in 
July, August, and September. Of 
these may be mentioned P. panicu- 
lata alba, and paniculata ribra: P. 
acuminata, which grows four feet 
high, and produces pink flowers 
from May to August. P. pyrami- 
dalis and its several varieties, P. 
latifolia and P. maculata, grow 
four feet high, and produce pink or 
red flowers from July to September; 
and P. multiflorus, which has a 
a foot and a half high, flowers near- 
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PHYSALIS. 
fera, the Date Palm, is a well- 
known stove plant, which should 
be grown in asandy loam. Young 
plants may be raised from the stones 
of the dates sold in the shops, and 
if kept in sufficient heat they will 
grow freely; though the trees must 
be of considerable age and size be- 
fore they bear fruit. 
Puo/rmium. — Asphodélee. — P. 
iénax, the New Zealand flax, is a 
very singular plant, with large 
bunches of orange flowers, and 
very long, broad, lily-like leaves, 
the fibres of which are so strong 
that they are used in New Zealand 
for making baskets, and various 
other articles in their coarse state, 
and in the same manner as flax for 
making sails, &c. In England the 
plant is at present rare, but it may 
be grown in a greenhouse in a very 
long spike of white flowers nos 
ly all the summer. The only an-|rich sandy loam frequently water- 
nual species is P. Drummondii and|ed; the principal objection to its 
its varieties, which are plants of| culture being the great size of its 
surpassing beauty raised annually |leaves, which occupy too much 
from seeds or cuttings in light sandy | space for it to be grown in a small 
soil, and admirably adapted for | house. 
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covering flower-beds or growing in | 
pots. When raised from seeds, this | 
species should be treated like a 
tender annual; and after being 
raised in a hotbed in February or 
March, it should be turned out into 
the open garden about the middle 
Puoti'nia. — Rosécee. — A very 
beautiful evergreen shrub or low 
tree, formerly called Crate\gus 
glabra, which is nearly hardy, but 
thrives best when trained against 
a wall ina sheliered situation. The 
soil should be sandy loam; and the 
of May; or it may be sown in;plants are propagated sometimes 
April or May in the open ground. | by cuttings ef the ripened wood, but 
In fine seasons it ripens seeds; but | more frequently by grafting or 
where it does not, it may be pre-|inarching on some of the hardy 
served through the winter by strik- 
ing cuttings in autumn, and preserv- 
ing them in pots placed on the front 
shelf of a greenhouse or in a frame. 
The varieties vary from purple to 
light rose, and generally come true 
from seed. On the whole, the genus 
Phlox is one of the most beautiful 
__ of herbaceous plants, and a garden 
ought to be no more without some 
of the species than it ought to be 
without Roses or bulbs. 
Puenix.—Paimee.—P. dactyli- 
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kinds of Crategus. 
Puy'tica.— Rhamnacee.— Pretty 
little heath-like plants, natives of 
the Cape of Good Hope, with nar- 
row leaves, and little terminal heads 
of fragrant white flowers, which 
begin to appear in autumn and 
continue during winter and early 
spring. ‘They are generally grown 
in a greenhouse, and require the 
same treatment as the Cape Heaths. 
Puysa‘Lis. — Solandcee. — The 
Winter Cherry. Dwarf shrubby 
