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coming too dry. In August they will should occasionally be sprinkled over 



be ready for transplanting." — Card. 

 Chron. 



General Culture. — This is detailed 

 by that most successful floriculturist, 

 Dr. Horner, of Hull, and from his di- 

 rections are taken the following ex- 

 tracts : — 



" Situation and Soil. — A free and 

 pure air is necessary for its vigorous 

 growth. It should alway be grown in 



the foliage (avoiding the flowers) ; and 

 the smaller and central pips should be 

 thinned out, that the truss or umbel of 

 flowers may have a uniform and un- 

 crowded appearance. When the bloom 

 is over, the plants should be turned out 

 of their pots into the border from 

 whence they were taken ; here they 

 must remain without further care, ex- 

 cept an occasional watering, till the 



a bed or open border, and in one which end of July, when they should be taken 



has an eastern aspect. It is most im- 

 patient of heat and drought, but de- 

 lights in a cool, or rather moist and 

 shaded locality, where it can enjoy 

 about two hours of the morning sun. It 

 thrives best in a retentive soii from a 

 rich old pasture, to which has been 

 added about the sixth part of cow 

 manure, two or three years old, and 

 the same quantity of leaf-mould. The 



up, the soil crumbled from their roots, 

 and those which present two or more 

 heads divided gently with the fingers, 

 and prepared and planted as before de- 

 scribed." — Card. Chron. 



P O L Y B O T R Y A. Three species. 

 Stove ferns. Division and seed. Sandy 

 peat and turf. 



POLYGALA. Forty-four species. 

 Herbaceous, shrubby, and annual. All 



natural soil of the garden should be hardy or green-house, except the stove 



dug out to the depth of a foot, and the 

 space filled up with the above, three 

 months previously to planting them, 

 that the bed may have become settled 

 before it is required for the plants. 



" Planting. — The proper time is at 

 the end of July, not later. Shorten the I 



annuals, P.pnniculata and P. umhellata. 

 Division, cuttings or seed. Sandy peat 

 and a little loam. 



POLYGON ATUM. Thirteen species. 

 Hardy herbaceous. Seed and division. 

 Light rich loam. 



POLYGONUM. Forty-eight species. 



main or tap-root, as it is called, to i Chiefly hardy herbaceous or annual 

 wiihin about half an inch of the leaves, plants, some being aquatics and trailers, 

 that a few of the vigorous young fibrous A few require the shelter of the green- 

 roots only may he retained ; with a house. Seed and division. Light rich 

 small trowel make a hole in the soil loam. 



surticiently deep that the plant may POLYPODIUM. Sixty-six species, 

 have the very crown of the main root Chiefly stove ferns. Division and seed. 



Light loam and peat. 



POLYPODY. Polypodium. 

 POLYPTERIS integrifolia. Hardy 

 annual. Seed. Light rich loam. 



POLYSPORA axillaris. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Unripe cuttings. Light 

 loam and peat. 



POLYSTACHYA. Seven species. 



covered at least one inch with the soil 



" It is of the utmost importance that ; 

 the polyanthus should be thus deep | 

 set; for the young roots always ema- 

 nate from the very top of the main 

 root, and throw themselves out for the 

 most part, if a somewhat curved or hori- 

 zontal method of planting is adopted. 

 ILiving well watered the bed, the 



plants require no more care whatever, ] Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood and 



except being kept clean. They should 

 be lel\ entirely without covering or pro- ] 

 tection in the winter. j 



"Blooming, i^c. — In spring, just 

 when the pips are about to expand, if 

 wanted for the purpose of exhibition, 



moss. 



POMADERRIS. Sixteen species. 

 Green-house evergreen shrubs. Young 

 cuttings. Sandy loam and peat. 



POMAX hirta. Green-house ever- 

 green shrub. Cuttings. Sandy peat and 



or to ornament the stage or cool green- loam, 



house, they may be taken up with a POMBALIA ;7!//>a. Stove herbaceous, 



moderately-sized ball of earth, and put Seed and young cuttings. Sandy loam 



into common auricula pots, for they and peat. 



bear this removal without the slightest: 

 injury or apparent check. Water must 

 now be supplied rather freely, and 



POMEGRANATE. Punica. 



POMl'lOX. See Gourd. 



P t) N C E L E T I A sprengeiloides. 



