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PHYTOLACCA. 
and herbaceous plants, with showy 
flowers. The fruit is a bright red 
berry in a bladdery calyx; and 
when the calyx has been macera- 
ted by soaking it in water, it has a 
very pretty effect. Some of the 
species are shrubby, but the greater 
part are herbaceous plants; they | 
are generally only half-hardy, and 
they succeed best when grown in 
sandy loam. 
Paysia'nruus. — Asclepiddz@. —- 
A climbing plant from Mexico, 
which has proved hardy in the 
London Horticultural Society’s gar- 
dens. It has small whitish flow- 
ers, and very large and handsome 
fleshy seed-vessels, which look like 
oval gourds, and which, whea 
opened, are found to coatain the 
seeds enveloped in a quantity of 
fine silky substance, which looks like 
the cocoons of silkworms, after the 
fine silk has been spun off. The 
Physianthus will grow in any com- 
mon soil; but it should always be 
trained against a wall, as otherwise 
the large fruit will be too heavy for 
the slender branches. There are 
two species. 
Puysoste'aia. — Labizie. — P. 
imbricata is a beautiful plant, with 
pale purple flowers, nearly allied 
to Dracocéphalum, which only re- 
quires the usual treatment of hardy 
perennials. P. truncata is an an- 
nual species with pale pink flowers. | 
Both are natives of Mexico, and 
will grow in the open ground, in 
any common garden soil. 
Puyreu'ma. — Campanulacee. — 
Herbaceous plants, generally with 
dark-blue flowers, which will grow 
in any ordinary soil, and which are 
increased by dividing the roots. 
Puytoxa’cca. — Chenopodiaceae, 
or Phytolacee—P. decindra, the 
Virginian Poke, is a fine vigorous. 
growing plant, which is ornamen- 
tal from the abundance of its black 
berries, but which, from its large 
leaves and spreading habit of 
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PIPINGS. 
_growth, requires a great deal of 
_room. It should be grown in very 
| rich soil, and it is increased by seeds 
,or cuttings. There are several 
species, all of which have black 
berries, containing a deep red juice, 
which is said to be used in Portugal 
to colour Port wine. 
| Picoree—A kind of Carnation 
| with a narrow, dark-coloured mar- 
gin to the petals, or with the petals 
_covered with small brown or dark 
purple dots. For the culture, see 
Dia'nraus. 
Pitewort.—See Fica‘ria. 
Pime'Lea.— Thymeldacee.— Aus- 
tralian shrubs which require a richer 
soil than most other plants from 
that country. They should be 
grown in a greenhouse in England ; 
/in a soil composed of sandy peat 
_and loam, mixed vegetable mould, 
|or part of an old hotbed. They 
should have plenty of light, and 
| they should be kept regularly wa- 
tered. They are propagated by 
cuttings. 
PimpERNEL.—See AnaGa'LLis. 
Ping.—See Dta’nruus. 
Pirincs—Cuttings of Pinks and 
Carnations are calied pipings: be- 
cause these plants have tubuler 
| stems; and when separated at «# 
| joint, the parts are pulled asunder. 
instead of being cut. This is done 
|in autumn, by taking a shoot that 
has nearly done growing, in one 
| hand, and pulling the upper part cf 
it off just above a pair of leaves, so 
| as to separate it at the socket form- 
ed by the axils of the leaves, leav- 
ing the part pulled off with a tubu- 
lar or pipe-like termination. Some 
florists then cut off the tips of the 
leaves, but others leave them entire, 
as shown in fig. 42, and in both 
| cases the pipings must be struck in 
/sand with a hand-glass fixed firmly 
‘over them. It maybe here obsery- 
|ed, that the herbage of Pinks and 
Carnations is called the grass; and 
ithat when a plant is in a vigorous 
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