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PETROSELINUM. Two species. 

 Hardy biennials. Seed. Common soil. 

 See Parsley. 



PETTY- WHIN. Genista anglica. 



PETUNIA. Five species. Tender 

 or half-hardy herbaceous. Seed and 

 cuttings. Sandy loam and leaf-mould. 

 From P. nyctaginijlora, which is white, 

 and P. vio/acea, purple, are raised the 

 numerous varieties adorning our gar- 

 dens. 



Select Varieties: 

 Alice Gray. 

 Arethusa. 

 Beauty. 



superb. 



Bicolor. 



Bumons de Willi 



(Van Houte's). 

 Caryophylloides. 

 Constance. 

 Delicata. 

 Dwarf-pencilled. 

 Enchantress. 

 Exactum. 

 Gem. 

 Gigantea. 

 Grandis. 

 Highciare. 

 Hildida. 

 Hope (Smith's). 

 Illuminata. 

 Kentish Beauty. 



Bride. 



Lady Sale. 

 Magician. 

 Magna Charta. 



Magna rosea. 



Magnet. 



Massengii. 



Medora. 



Ne plus ultra 

 (Pearson's). 



Nixenii (Harri- 

 son's). 



Ornatissima. 



Othello. 



Ovid. 



Pet (Ivery's). 



Picta. 



Prince Albert. 



Psyche. 



Punctata (Mil- 



ler's). 



Reliance. 



Rook's Nest. 



Rosea alba. 



Splutherii. 



Striata superb. 



Unique. 



superb. 



Variegata 



Characteristics of Excellence. — Flow- 

 ers flat, circular, free from indenta- 

 tions, and firm of"'texture. Colour, 

 bright and well-determined. Flowers 

 numerous. 



Propagation by Seed Sow in March 



in a gentle hot-bed, and plant out at the 

 end of May, like the half-hardy annuals; 

 or sow on an open compartment, when 

 the spring is farther advanced. 



By Cuttings. — May be struck almost 

 at any time, but a good time is " early 

 in September. The cuttings should be 

 put into sixties, and placed in the front 

 of a hot-bed until they have struck root, 

 ■which will be in about three or four 

 weeks, at which time they may be re- 

 moved to a cold pit, or to the front of a 

 green-house. 



" Early in February they should be 

 shifted into forty-eights, in a mixture of 

 sandy peat, leaf-mould, and loam, and 

 repotted as fast as the pots become full 



of roots, using an inch and a half of 

 rubbly charcoal, to act as drainage, at 

 the bottom of each pot. During the 

 time they are growing in pots they 

 should be watered two or three times a 

 week with liquid manure ; and the latter 

 end of May they may be turned out into 

 the flower garden." — Gard. Chron. 



Winter Protection is best afforded 

 them in a cold pit, frame, or green- 

 house. By a little attention, and judi- 

 cious watering, &c., they will begin to 

 bloom early in the spring. 



PEYROUSIA. Eight species. Green- 

 house and half-hardy bulbs. Off'sets. 

 Sandy loam and leaf-mould. Like Ixia, 

 they will usually thrive in alight-soiled, 

 sheltered, south border. 



PHACA. Fourteen species. Hardy 

 herbaceous, except P. canescens, re- 

 quiring a green-house. P. glabra is a 

 hardy deciduous trailer. Seed. Com- 

 mon soil. 



PHACELIA. Six species. Hardy 

 herbaceous or annuals. Division or 

 seed. Common soil. 



PHACOSPERMA peruviana. Stove 

 herbaceous. Seed. Peat and loam. 



PHAIUS. Five species. Stove 

 epiphytes and orchids. Of the former 

 P. albus is most desirable. It is propa- 

 gated from young shoots. Peat and 

 potsherds. The other species are in- 

 creased by division of the roots. Peat 

 and sandy loam. 



P H A L ^lii N A vanaria. A moth, 

 abounding usually in June and July, is 

 thus described by Mr. Curtis: — 



" The horns of the male are pecti- 

 nated ; the wings are of an ash colour 

 and freckled ; the upper have four 

 brown marks on the superior margin, 

 the second crossing the centre of the 

 wing. 



" The larva is a looper, having only 

 ten legs. It infects the red currant and 

 gooseberry bushes, feeding upon the 

 leaves, and is found in May. It is about 

 an inch long, bluish green, with two 

 white dorsal and two yellow lateral 

 lines. It is dotted with little black 

 tubercles, which produce short black 

 hairs. It changes late in May to a 

 chestnut-coloured chrysalis, in a slight 

 web, on the surface of the earth." — 

 Gard. Chron. 



PHALiEONOPSIS amabilis. Stove 

 epiphyte. Side shoots. Wood and 

 moss. 



PHALANGIUM. Five species. All 



