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the ground or dark colour. Beyond these 

 circles there is a yellow lacing, which 

 should reach round every flower- leaf to 

 the yellow eye, and down the centre of 

 every petal to the eye, and so much like 

 the edging that the flower should appear 

 to have (ten or) twelve similar petals. 

 The ends of these (ten or) twelve should 

 be blunted, and rounded like so many 

 semicircles, so that the outline of the 

 circle should be interrupted as little as 

 possible. 



5. The tube (one-fifth the width of the 

 whole flower) should be nearly filled up 

 with the six anthers, which are techni- 

 cally called the thrum (have an elevated 

 edge, rendering it trumpet-eyed}, and the 

 flower should not exhibit the pistil. 



6. The edging round and down the 

 centre of the petals formed by the di- 

 visions should be of even width all the 

 way, and uniformly of the same shade of 

 sulphur, lemon, or yellow as the eye, and 

 there must not be two shades of yellow 

 in the eye. 



7. The ground colour may be just 

 what anybody likes best, but clear, well 

 defined, perfectly smooth at the edges in- 

 side next the eye, so as to form a circle, 

 and outside, next the lacing. A black or 

 a crimson ground, being scarce, is de- 

 sirable ; but the quality of the colour as 

 to clearness, rather than the colour itself, 

 constitutes the property. 



The Plant. 1. The stem should be 

 strong, straight, elastic, and from four to 

 six inches in length. 



2. The footstalks of the flower should 

 be of such length as to bring all the 

 flowers well together. 



3. The truss should rise from the centre 

 of the foliage, comprise seven or more 

 flowers, and be neatly arranged to be seen 

 all at once. 



4. The foliage should be dark green 

 short, broad, thick, and cover the pot well 

 but erect and clustering round, though 

 lower than the truss. 



The Pair, or Collection. The pair, or 

 pan of more, should comprise flowers oi 

 different and distinct colours, either the 

 ground colour or the yellow of each being 

 sufficiently different from the rest to be 

 well distinguished. The whole should be 

 so near of a height as to range the heads 

 of bloom well together. The great fault of 

 the Polyanthus now, even among the besi 

 sorts, is that the divisions between the 

 petals are so wide as to make the flower 



ook starry, whereas there should be no 

 more gap where the division is than is in 

 ;he indentation of the petal itself. 

 Glenny's Properties of Flowers, &c. 



Culture. The Polyanthus may be cul- 

 tivated exactly as the Auricula. 



POLYBO'TRYA. (From polys, many, and 

 botrys, a raceme ; the appearance of the 

 fertile or seed-bearing frond. Nat. ord., 

 Ferns [Polypodiacese]. Linn, 24-Crypfo- 

 gamia l-Filices.) 



Stove, brown-spored Ferns. See FERNS. 

 P. acumina'ta (pointed-teaued). July. W. Ind. 

 1831. 



apiifo'lia (parsley-leaved). July. I. of Luzon. 



appendicula'ta (appendaged). July. W. Ind. 



articula'ta (jointed). July. Isle of Luzon. 



cervi'na (hart's-tongue). f . April. Jamaica. 



1823. 



Corcovade'nsis (Corcovado). July. Brazil. 



1837. 



inci'sa (cut-leaved), July. W. Ind. 



interme'dia (intermediate). April. Isle of 



Luzon. 



Osmundu'cea (Osmunda-like). July. Mexico. 



serrula'ta (saw-edged). July. Isle of Luzon. 



specio'sa (showy). July. W. Ind. 



vivi'para (viviparous). J. June. W. Ind. 



1823. 



POLY'GALA. Milkwort. (From polys, 

 much, and gala, milk; abundance of milky 

 juice. Nat. ord., Milkworts [Polygalaceae]. 

 Linn., 17-Diadelphia 3-Octandria.) 



Annuals, by seed in a peaty border ; herbaceous 

 perennials, seeds and divisions in similar soil, or 

 sandy loam and leaf-mould; hardy shrubs and 

 under-shrubs, as chamcebu'xis, by cuttings and 

 suckers, and which species, in particular, likes a 

 little chalk with the peat and leaf-mould ; tender 

 shrubs, by cuttings of the side-shoots, when 2J 

 inches long, taken off close to the stem, and in- 

 serted in sand, under a bell-glass ; for all these, 

 peat three parts, and loam one part. Many of 

 them, from their beauty and comparative hardi- 

 ness, should be tried aprainst conservative walls, 

 such as latifo'lia, myrtifo'lia grandifto'ra, spe- 

 cio'sa, &c. 



HARDY ANNUALS. 



P. fastigia'ta (peaked). $. Red. June. N.Amer. 

 1824. 



Monspeli'aca (Montpelier). . Blue. June. 



Mediterranean. 



purpu'rea (purple). Purple. June. N.Amer. 



1739. 



umbella'ta (umbelled). 1. Purple. July. 



Cape of Good Hope. Stove. 



HARDY HERBACEOUS. 

 P. a'lba (white). White. June. Louisiana. 1827. 



alpe'stris (alpine). Blue. June. Switzerland. 



ama'ra (bitter). $. Blue. June. Europe. 1775. 



Austri'aca (Austrian). Purple. June. Germany. 



chamcebu'xis (bastard box). $. Yellow. May. 



Austria. 1658. Evergreen. 



graminifo'lia (grass-leaved). . Lilac, yellow. 



June. Carolina. 1824. 



ma'jor (larger. Austrian). 1. Red. July. 



Austria. 173Q. 



rube'lla (reddish), i. Pale red, June, N, Amer. 



1828. 



