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be placed at regular intervals, and they i 

 should be as close to the roots, and as | 

 near to the centre of the pots as possi- 

 ble. Thus if a plant is shifted but 

 once, it will be provided with some chan- 



P. veris. Cowslip. 



P. vulgaris. Primrose. Of this there 

 are the following cultivated v;irieties: 

 Brimstone: Crimson; Hose-in-hose ; Li- 

 ne; Purple; Scotch; Stemless White; 



nels for moisture, extending throughout White and Yellow. All the species 

 the soil, and if it be frequently repotted, : may be cultivated like the Polyanthus. 



the number of these channels may be I 

 increased. When these are once 



PRINCE, WILLIAM. The name of 

 Prince is identified with American hor- 



troduced into the soil they are perma- | ticulture. Perhaps no man has done 

 nent ; for being of material which is' more to gratify the taste of amateurs of 

 not subject to rapid decay, they willj flowers and fruit than the late William 

 serve at least the lifetime of a plant, | Prince, whose extensive grounds at 

 and by occasionally making use of a ! Flushing, New York, were the nursery 

 simple siphon, a mere worsted thread,! of almost every vegetable calculated to 

 in contact with moisture, a slow, mo- { please the eye or palate. We regret 

 derate, and constant supply of moisture that there is not within our reach the 



Five species. Stove 

 magnispatha is an or- 

 Sandy loam 



Green- 

 division. 



may be conveyed at pleasure to and 

 through the centre of the soil, and the 

 whole mass may thus be kept regularly 

 and equably moistened." — Gard. Chron. 

 See One- Shift System. \ 



POUPARTIA. Three species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Ripe cuttings. Loam 

 and peat. j 



POURRETIA 

 herbaceous. P. 

 chid. Seed and suckers 

 and peat. 



PRATIA. Three species 

 house herbaceous. Seed and 

 Sandy loam and peat. 



PREMNA. Four species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Seed and cuttings. 

 Loam and peat. 



P R E S L I A cervina. Hardy herba- 

 ceous. Division. Moist soil. 



PRESTONIA. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Sandy 

 loam and peat. 



PRICKLY CEDAR. Cyatkodes oxy- 

 cedrus. 



PRIESTLEYA. Fourteen species. 

 Green-house evergreen shrubs. Young 

 cuttings. Sandy loam and peat. 



PRIMROSE. Primula vulgaris. 



PRIMULA. Forty-nine species and 

 many varieties. Herbaceous and all 



data from which to draft a particular 

 description of the foundation, rise and 

 progress of the " Linnxan Botanic 

 Garden." 



PRINCE'S FEATHER. Amaran- 

 thus hypochondriacus. 



PRINOS. Eleven species. Hardy 

 deciduous shrubs, except the stove 

 evergreen P. montanus and P. lucidus, 

 which is evergreen and hardy. Cut- 

 tings and layers. Light loam and 

 peat. 



PRISMATOCARPUS. Four species. 

 P. diffusus is a green-house evergreen 

 shrub ; P. fruticosus is a hardy ever- 

 green shrub ; the others green-house 

 herbaceous. Young cuttings and seed. 

 Sandy loam and peat. 



PRIVET. Ligustrum. 



PROCKIA. three species. Stove 

 evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy 

 loam and peat. 



PROLIFEROUS. See Double- 

 Flower. 



PROPS are the supports required by 

 plants to sustain them in a desired 

 position. They must vary in height 

 and strength accordantly with the plant 

 to which they are applied, and should 

 always be as slight as is consistent 

 with efficiency. Nothing looks worse 

 hardy except the fringed green-house than a disproportioned prop; indeed it 

 varieties, P. prts/ii'/fns, and the species should be concealed as much as pos- 



P. verlicitlata. Division and seed 

 Loam and leaf-mould. 



P. auricula. See Auricula. 



P. elatior. 0x1 i p. 



P. pr<enitens or sinensis. Chinese 

 Primrose. This is har<ly if grown in a 

 light, well-drained soil, but its white 

 and pink fringed varieties require win- 

 tering in the green-house. 



sible. The props for peas should bo 

 of the branches of the hazel ; for run- 

 ner kidney beans, rods of ash. For 

 flowers, stout iron wire painted dark 

 green are to be preferred. Some 

 flowers require props of a peculiar 

 form ; but these will be described 

 when giving directions for their cul- 

 ture. Whenever wooden props are 



