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go. The whole may then he cased over 

 up to, and rather ahove, the rim of the 

 pot, provided the hottom-heat has de- 

 clined sufficiently to hear it. This re- 

 newal must be watched, and water applied 

 to the tan if necessary. 



December and January require a very 

 similar course of practice; much fire- 

 heat will at times be necessary, and all 

 possible means must be taken to coun- 

 teract dryness in the atmosphere. Sy- 

 ringing can seldom be permitted in these 

 two months, but sprinklings on the sur- 

 face of the tan, and once a week it may 

 be stirred up with a stake. Besides this, 

 the floor may be kept moist, evaporating 

 pans kept in continual requisition, and 

 even the walks sprinkled, if necessary, 

 if the weather become unusually severe, 

 rather give up five degrees on the ther- 

 mometer than continue a roasting fire 

 for several days. In emergencies of this 

 kind, the pines will take no harm at 55 ; 

 but not a degree below this should be 

 permitted. 



February The temperature will now 

 begin to rise again slightly; growth re- 

 commences, and repotting succession 

 pines, and the renewal of bottom-heat is 

 needed, this brings us to the point from 

 which we commenced. 



Insects. See ACABUS and Coccus. 



PINE-TREE. Pi'mts. 



PINEASTEE BEETLE. Bostrichus. 



PINGUI'CULA. Butterwort. (From pin- 

 guis, fat; the greasiness of the leaves. 

 Nat. ord., Butterworts [Lentibulaceas]. 

 Linn., 2-Diandria 1-Monogynia.^) 



Seeds and divisions ; chiefly requiring marshy, 

 boggy soil. North American species are the most 

 tender, requiring the treatment generally given to 

 alpines, with the addition of keeping water in the 

 saucer below the pot in which they are grown. 

 P. ede'ntula (toothless). 4. Yellow. April. N. Amer. 

 1823. 



grandiflo'ra (large-flowered). . Blue. April. 



Britain. 

 -r lu'tea (yellow). $. Yellow. June. Carolina. 1816. 



orchidoi'des (orchis-like). . Purple. October. 



Mexico. 1845. 



vulga'ris (common). . Violet. May. Britain. 



PINK. So little do the Pink, Picotee, 

 and Carnation differ in their botanical 

 characteristics, that they are all consi- 

 dered varieties of the Clove Pink (Dia'n- 

 thus caryophy'llus). Some think that the 

 Eed Pinks only are derived from this, 

 hut that the Pheasant's-eye Pinks are 

 the offspring of the Feathered Pink 

 (Dia'nthus pluma'rius}. As florists' 

 flowers they are very distinct. The 



Carnation marks in flakes, or ribbons, of 

 colour, from centre to edge, and through 

 the edge ; and the more dense these rib- 

 bons, or stnpes, or flakes of colour are, 

 and the more distinct the white ground 

 between them, the better, and the more 

 equally divided, as to quantity, they are, 

 the better. As the petals are broader as 

 they approach the outer edge, so also are, 

 or should be, both the colour and the 

 white. They are divided into classes, 

 called Bizarres and Flakes; the former 

 having two colours of stripe besides the 

 white, the latter only one colour. These 

 Bizarres and Flakes are subdivided, there 

 being purple flakes, rose flakes, and 

 scarlet flakes ; and among the bizarres, 

 scarlet bizarres, which have scarlet 

 stripes, and a second colour, which is 

 considered better for a rich contrast of 

 black, and approaches to it; then pur- 

 ple bizarres, which have purple stripes, 

 with a light pink, or rose, or some other 

 colour, forming a contrast. The Picotee 

 has the colour only on the edge, and 

 broad or narrow, as the case may be, hut 

 ramifying towards the centre ; any mark 

 or spirt of colour that does not touch the 

 edge is a blemish. Some, therefore, are 

 only marked round the edge very dis- 

 tinctly, but as narrow as possible ; others 

 have a sort of feathering, narrow or 

 deep, as the case may be, but feathering 

 inwards from the edge ; the outer edge 

 solid, and the inner edge rough, or 

 feathery. The Pink is distinct from 

 both these. The lacing, as it were, of 

 a pink is rough outside and inside, with 

 a portion of white outside the lacing, 

 as if a band of colour had been laid on ; 

 besides this, there is colour at the hase 

 of every petal, and, perhaps, one-third of 

 the distance along the petal, so that it 

 forms an eye, or centre, of colour, which 

 is peculiar to itself, and which never 

 occurs in the Carnation or Picotee. A 

 Pink, without its lacing all round each 

 petal, and its narrow strip of white out- 

 side it, would be worthless as a show- 

 flower. The more distinct this lacing is, 

 the better; it should look like an even 

 piece of embroidery, just fairly within 

 the outer edge of the white. 



The Pink may be propagated and cul- 

 tivated in every respect similarly to the 

 Carnation. Pipings of it are best made 

 at the end of May, or early in June. 



Growing in Beds. By the middle of 

 August Pinks are all gone out of flower. 



