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employed, and, since the introduction 

 of Whitney's and other compositions 

 for rendering cloth semi-transparent, 

 are still less likely to be employed. 

 Cartridge paper is the best for the pur- ] 

 pose. It should be damped before it 

 is nailed upon the frame, because when 



good crop immediately afterwards, never 

 fails, by speedy exhaustion, to demon- 

 strate how great has been the disper- 

 sion of carbonaceous matter. 



PARIVOA grandijlora. Stove ever- 

 green tree. Cuttings. Rich loam. 



PARK, in the modern acceptation of 



dried it becomes taut. It may then be j the word, is an extensive adorned in 

 painted over with boiled linseed oil, in , closure surrounding the house and gar- 

 which a little white lead has been in- '', dens, and affording pasturage either 

 corporated. In nailing on the paper, I to deer or cattle. In Great Britain, a 

 a strip of tape should be placed between park, strictly and legally, is a large ex- 

 the heads of the tacks and the paper, \ tent of a man's own ground inclosed 

 to check the tearing to which the paper 1 and privileged for wild beasts of chase 



is so subject 



PAPER-MULBERRY. Broussone- 

 tia papyracea. 



PAPYRUS. Four species. Stove 

 perennial aquatics. Seed and division. 

 Rich loam in water. 



PARAGUAY TEA. Ilex paraguen- 



PARASITIC PLANTS are such as 

 derive their nourishment from other 

 living plants by rooting into their sap 

 vessels. Examples are the Mistletoe 

 and Dodder, which attach themselves 

 to the stems and branches of some 

 plants ; the Hypocistus, and the Oro- 

 banche or Broom rape, affix themselves 

 to the roots of others. The minute 

 fungi which constitute the mildew are 

 also parasites. There is some doubt 

 whether the ivy is at all parasitical ; 



by prescription or by royal grant. 

 (Coke's Litt. 233. a. Blackstone, 2. 38.) 

 The beasts of park, or chase, according 

 to the definition of ancient sportsmen, 

 were the buck, doe, fox, marten, and 

 roe ; but in a common and legal sense, 

 Coke says, beasts of park were all the 

 beasts of the forest. It has been de- 

 cided by the superior courts of law, 

 that to constitute a park these circum- 

 stances are essential : — 1. A grant from 

 the king, or prescription. 2. That it 

 be inclosed by a wall, pale, or hedge. 

 3. That it contain beasts of park, and 

 if it fail in any one of these, it is a total 

 disparking. [Croke Car. 59.) Of such 

 parks there are said to be 781 in Eng- 

 land. {Brooks Ahr. Action sur Stat. 

 48.) 



PARKIA. Two species. Stove 



but whether it derives nourishment or | evergreen trees. Cuttings. Peat and 



not from trees, it certainly checks the 

 respiration, and prevents the free ac- 

 cess of light and air to those upon 

 which it attaches. The orchidaceous 

 plants, which grow upon dead wood 

 as readily as upon living timber, are 

 not parasites. 



PARASTRANTHUS. Three spe- 

 cies. Hardy herbaceous. Division. 

 Sandy loam and peat. 



PARDANTHUS. Two species. 

 Hardy herbaceous. Seed and division. 

 Light rich sheltered border. 



PARINARIUM. Three species. 

 Stove evergreen shrubs. Ripe cut- 

 tings. Sandy loam and peat. 



PARING and BURNING is never to 

 be practised by the gardener, except 

 for the purpose of charring the turf and 

 rendering porous the soil cut from the 

 banks of clayey ditches. When this is 

 carefully done, a serviceable dressing 

 is obtained. But paring and burning, 

 as a general practice, is extremely 

 wasteful; and though it may give a 



loam. 



PARKINSONIA aculeata. Stove 

 evergreen shrub. Imported seed and 

 cuttings. Peat and loam. 



PARNASSIA. Five species. Hardy 

 herbaceous. Division and seed. Shaded 

 moist peat. 



PAROCHETUS communis. Half- 

 hardy evergreen creeper. Division. 

 Light rich loam. 



PARONYCHIA. Fourteen species. 

 Chiefly hardy perennials and annuals. 

 P. canariensis is a green-house her- 

 baceous, and a few others are half- 

 hardy. Seed and division. Sandy 

 loam. 



PARRY A arctica, a hardy annual. 

 P. integerrima, a hardy perennial 

 trailer. The first increased by seed, 

 the latter by cuttings. Loam and peat. 



PARSLEY. Petroselinurn sativum. 



Varieties, — There are two varieties, 

 the common plain leaved and the curly 

 leaved. 



Time and Mode of Sowing. — It is 



