PHYGELIUS. 



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should be trimmed with scissors or a 

 pair of shears from time to time, and 

 soon push out afresh. Easily grown 

 in any soil, on open banks or sunny 

 places in the rock garden. Caucasus. 

 Syn. Crucianella stylosa. 



PHYGELIUS (Cape Figwort).P. 

 capensis, a Cape plant of some beauty, 

 3 or 4 feet high, and bearing racemes of 

 brilliant scarlet flowers, which open 

 in May and June and continue far 

 into autumn. It is hardy near London, 

 though it does not flourish so well 

 in the open as on a wall, where it will 

 stand any amount of sun - heat and 

 even long periods of drought. Readily 

 increased by cuttings or portions 

 of the root-stock, the bases of the 

 stems being furnished with rootlets. 



PHYLLODOCE. A dwarf ever- 

 green mountain shrub with pretty 

 bell flowers, thriving only in cool 

 parts of a good rock garden. A 

 British species thrives in fine soil 

 about Edinburgh. P. Breweri is found 

 in vast areas of the Sierra Nevada, 

 California. 



PHYSALIS (Winter Cherry}. P. 

 Alkekengi is a handsome and curious 

 S. European plant with ample downy 

 leaves, bearing in autumn bright 

 orange-red bladder-like calyces, en- 

 closing Cherry-like fruits of a pleasant 

 acid flavour, and perfectly wholesome 

 either raw or preserved. It is a hardy 

 perennial, requiring a warm border ; 

 i to ij feet high. Division or seed. 

 Solanaceae. 



P. FRANCHETI. A splendid new hardy 

 plant from Japan, possibly a variety of 

 P. Alkekengi, but so distinct as to merit 

 special attention. It is larger altogether 

 than the old kind both in foliage and calyx, 

 which is brilliant coral-red in colour, 

 though varying a little in shade, sometimes 

 touched with orange, and generally 



3 inches in length with a circumference of 

 7 or 8 inches. The plant grows 18 inches 

 high and requires a similar position to 

 P. Alkekengi, spreading strongly by under- 

 ground stems. The dried fruits are beau- 

 tiful in winter bouquets. P. Bunyardi is 

 a, hybrid, a vigorous and good kind. 



PHYSOSTEGIA (False Dragon' s- 

 Head) . Vigorous perennials, best 

 for grouping with the bolder kinds 

 of hardy plants. P. virginiana, i to 



4 feet high, has flesh-coloured or 

 purple flowers crowded in terminal 

 racemes. There are pretty white and 

 pink forms, alba and rosea, and a 

 more vigorous one, speciosa, with 

 larger flowers of deeper purple colour. 



These are all very pretty for cut work, 

 or grouped in the border. P. imbricata 

 from Texas has higher and more 

 slender stems, broader leaves, and 

 larger flowers of a deeper colour. P. 

 denticulata is similar to P. virginiana, 

 but rarer and less showy. All these 

 kinds flower in summer, and thrive in 

 any ordinary soil. Division. 



Physalis Alkekengi (Winter Cherry). 



PHYTEUMA (Rampiori).The Ram- 

 pions are neat, pretty, and interesting 

 plants of the Bellflower order, with 

 small flowers in profusion. They enjoy 

 a sunny position, and some of them 

 are good rock plants. P. orbicular e is 

 a rare and desirable native Rampion, 

 i to 2 feet high, and is best among 

 rock plants, where it would be free 

 from the destructive effects of the 

 hoe and rake. It flourishes in a dry 

 position in a mixture of limestone 

 grit, peat, sand, and loam, and has 

 violet - blue flowers in July. It is 

 extremely impatient of removal or 

 division, and should be raised from 

 seed sown in autumn in a cool frame. 

 P. Sieberi is neat for the rock garden, 

 requiring a moist, sunny situation, 

 and a mixture of leaf - mould, peat, 

 and sand. It forms cushion-like tufts, 



