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very impatient of superabundant mois- : 

 ture, and the plants will be found 

 never to do well when the soil becomes 

 in any degree sodden. 



The Soil should be rich, and tolerably 

 light. Decayed cucumber-bed dung is 

 the best manure, and the soil a light 

 hazel loam, with a good portion of de- 

 cayed turf from pasture land, thoroughly 

 intermixed, by frequent stirring and 

 digging, and to three barrow-leads of 

 this soil add one of the cucumber-bed 

 manure two years old. Manure-water, 

 particularly guano-water, applied during 

 the blooming season, is very beneficial. 



The Plants should be carefully se- 

 lected for the purpose of producing 

 blooms for exhibition, as it will be 

 always found that when they have 

 flowered well through one season, they 

 never produce so fine blooms the 

 second. Those who intend to grow the 

 Pansey for exhibition, should select 

 young plants well established from cut- 

 tings for the purpose. For the spring 

 exhibitions in May and June, select 

 plants struck the previous autumn, in 

 August and September ; and for the j 

 autumn exhibitions in September, select | 

 plants struck early in the spring ; and I 

 after these have produced their blooms, 

 save them for store plants, to produce 

 cuttings, always having *a constant suc- 

 cession of young plants for the pur- I 

 pose of blooming. 



Propagation. The young side shoots 

 are to be preferred for cuttings, as the 

 old hollow stems seldom strike freely, 

 and do not grow so strong for spring 

 blooming. Take off a sufficient quan- 

 tity of these side shoots in August, or 

 the beginning of September, and for 

 autumn -blooming in April and May; 

 these insert either under hand-glasses, 

 or in pots placed in a cool-frame in 

 some good light compost, mixed with a 

 good quantity of silver sand, taking 

 care to keep them moderately moist, 

 and shading them from hot suns. 



The Disease to which the Pansey is 

 most subject, is a withering away sud- 

 denly, as if struck by something at the 

 root. This disease has received various 

 names, as root-rot, decline, &c., but both 

 cause and remedy are unknown. Old 

 plants are much more subject to it than t 



young ones, and it appears to be most 

 prevalent during hot and dry seasons. 

 When a plant is thus struck, which is 

 indicated by a withering of the foliage, 

 if it be a rare and choice kind, imme- 

 diately take all the cuttings you can 

 get, and strike them, as almost in- 

 variably the old plants die. Strong 

 stimulating manures are productive of 

 this disease. As a preventive keep the 

 surface of the soil frequently stirred. 



Insects. The worst foes of the 

 Pansey are the slug and the snail. To 

 destroy and keep away these vermin, 

 water the bed late of an evening in 

 moist weather with lime-water, and 

 sprinkle the surface pretty thickly with 

 fresh wood ashes. See Agromyza. 



Box for exhibiting Blooms. Dr. 

 Lindley says, that the best constructed 

 box for exhibiting twenty -four Hearts- 

 ease is made of deal, of the following 

 dimensions twenty inches long, one 

 wide, and five inches deep; the lid 

 made to unhinge ; a sheet of zinc fitted 

 inside, resting upon a rim ; four rows 

 of six holes each cut in the zinc at 

 three inches apart; under each hole a 

 zinc tube soldered to the plate, and in- 

 tended to contain the water. The aper- 

 tures to admit the flower made in the 

 form of a keyhole, as it will admit part 

 of the calyx, and keep the flower in a 

 flat position ; the outside may be painted 

 green, but the zinc plate should be 

 painted of a dead white. 



PANSEY FLY. Agromy'za, 



PANTILES. See Bricks. 



PAPA'VER. Poppy. (From papa, pap, 

 or thick milk ; referring to the juice. 

 Nat. ord., Poppyworts [Papaveracese], 

 Linn., 13-Polyandria \-Monoyynia.) 



Seeds in March and April, where the plants 

 are to remain ; division of the roots of the peren- 

 nial ones ; light, rich, sandy soil. 



HARDY PERENNIALS. 



P. Alpi'num( Alpine). 2. White. Julv. Austria* 

 1759- 



bractea'tum (bracted). 4. Bed. May. Si-; 



beria. 1817. 



cro'ceum (Saffron - coloured). 1. Saffron. 



May. Altai. 182Q. 



nudicau'le (naked -stalked). l. Yellow. 



July. Siberia. 1730. 



glabra'tum (smooth), zj. Yellow 



July. Siberia. 1800. 



i . _*-. lu'teum (yellovf- flowered). U. 



Yellow, July. Siberia. 1/30. 



