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lings are transplanted into larger 
pans, or into single small pots. The 
seed of common border Auriculas 
may be treated like that of the 
Polyanthus or Primrose. 
Primula cortusoides is a very 
ornamental species, which produces 
its red flowers from May to July; 
it requires a loamy soil, kept moist, 
and a shady situation; and there- 
fore cannot be treated like a com- 
mon border flower. 
Primula decora, P. nivalis, P. 
villosa, P. marginata, P. helvética, 
P. farinosa, P. paliniri, P. scética, 
and several others, might be named 
as rare and beautiful species, na- 
tives of alpine regions, and requir- 
ing to be cultivated with care in 
loamy ur peaty soil, kept moist, in 
an open and airy, but yet shady 
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P. prenitens, the Chinese Prim- 
rose, is a very beautiful greenhouse 
plant, «f which there are varieties 
with fink, with white, and with 
semi-deuble flowers. All these are 
particularly valuable, as forming 
neat little plants, and flowering 
throughout the winter. They are 
propagated by seeds, which gener- 
ally come true to the variety; or 
by cuttings, which must be struck 
by sand under a bell-glass, and with 
bottom-heat. They are only bien- 
nials, and therefore new plants re- 
quire to be raised every year. They 
are generally grown in pots, which 
should be well drained with pot- 
sherds, and filled up with a rich 
compost of equal parts of loam, 
peat, or sand, and rotten dung or 
vegetable mould. 
Prince’s Featuer.—Amardantus 
hypochondriacus.—-See AMARA'NTUS. 
Pri'nos, — Rhamnicee.— Hardy 
North American shrubs, that will 
grow in any light soil, though they 
prefer peat, and any situation. 
They are generally propagated by 
layers. 
Privet.—See Licu'strum. 
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Props are artificial supports for 
plants; and they are of various 
kinds, according to the nature of 
the plant that is to be supported. 
Twining plants are supported by 
single rods, stakes or poles without 
branches; plants which climb by 
tendrils are supported by branched 
rods ; and plants which raise them- 
selves by elongation or long slender 
shoots among other plants are sup- 
ported artificially by branched rods, 
or by being tied to simple rods. All 
these kinds of plants, when too ten- 
der to be supported in the open gar- 
den, are trained to walls, which are 
the universal supports of plants, 
whether of the hardy and ligneous 
kinds, or of such as are slender, 
somewhat delicate, and either natu- 
rally climbing, such as Bignonia 
capreolata,—or rambling or trailing, 
such as different kinds of roses. 
Ornamental plants grown in pots 
are sometimes supported by single 
rods of wood, or of iron or wire, and 
sometimes by small frames either 
of wood oriron. These frames may 
either be flat and of equal breadth 
from the surface of the pot upward ; 
or they may be widest at top, which 
suits most sorts of climbers ; or they 
may be made in the form of cones, 
pyramids, inverted cones, or bal- 
loon-hke shapes, at pleasure. A 
very common form for such plants 
as Trope‘olum pentaphy'llum, T. 
tricolorum, and T. brachycéras, is 
those grown in beds or borders, such 
as Sweet Peas, the common Trope- 
olum (Nasturtium), the Scarlet-run- 
ner, &c., should have small branchy 
stakes inserted in the soil in a regu- 
lar manner, so as never to appear 
the work of chance or of careless- 
ness, but of art and careful design. 
