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P. intermedia (intermediate). 2. White, May. 

 1825. 



linifo'lia (Flax-leaved). 2. White. May. 



1793. 



linoi'des (Flax-like). 2. White. July. 1826. 



longiflo'ra (long-flowered). 4. White. 



June. 1831. 



na'na (dwarf). $. White. June. 1839- 



ni'vea (snov/y-herbaged). 6. White. 1833. 



paludo'sa (marsh). White. April. 1826. 



ro'sea (rosy). 2. Red. June. 1800. 



specta'bilis (showy). 3. White, pink. May. 



1840. 



spica'ta (spiked). 2. White. June. 1824. 



sylve'stris (wood). 2. Blush. June. 1830. 



PIME'NTA. Allspice Tree. (From 

 pimento, the Spanish name. Nat. ord., 

 Myrtleblooms [Myrtaceae]. Linn., 12- 

 Icosandria 1-Monogynia. Allied to 

 Myrtus.) 



Stove evergreen tree. Cuttings of ripe shoots, 

 in sand, under a bell-glass, and in a brisk bot- 

 tom heat, in spring; rich sandy fibry loam. 

 Winter temp., 50 to 60; summer, 60 to 85. 

 I 1 , vulga'ris (common. Allspice}. 30. White. 

 June. W. Indies. 1723. 



PIMPERNEL. Anaga'llis. 



PINASTER. Pi'nus Plna'ster. 



PINCHING is a term applied to crush- 

 ing, between the finger and thumb, the 

 leading bud of a shoot, so as to prevent 

 its increasing in length, and to force 

 more sap to the other buds. 



PINCKNE'YA. (Named after Mr. 

 Pinckney, an American botanist. Nat. 

 ord., Cinchonads [Cinchonaceffi]. Linn., 

 5-Penlandria \-Monogynia. Allied to 

 Bouvarrlia.) 



Half-hardy evergreen tree. Seeds ; and cut- 

 tings of ripened shoots, under a hand-light, in 

 sandy peat. It hardly deserves the greenhouse, 

 and is rather tender for exposure, but would, 

 probably, flourish against a south wall, in a 

 shallow border of loam and peat. 

 P. pu'bens (downy). 20. Red. June. Georgia. 

 1786. 



PINE APPLE (Anana'ssa). 



Varieties. Queen : a free grower and 

 an excellent fruiter ; fit for the earliest 

 summer fruit, and excellent during Sep- 

 tember and October. Ripky Queen : 

 a very fine fruit, and by many preferred 

 to the first. St. Vincent, or Green 

 Olive : an excellent winter fruit. Slack 

 Jamaica : the best winter pine ; it is 

 too often confounded with the Mont- 

 serrat. Slack Anliyua : a noble pyra- 

 midal fruit, with large pips ; should 

 be cut a little before it is quite ripe. 

 Brown Sugar -loaf : large and showy, ; 

 with a very juicy ilesh ; it is said by ' 



some to swell tolerably well in winter. 

 White Providence : one of the largest 

 and noblest of pines ; flavour rather 

 inferior. Trinidad: large and of pyra- 

 midal shape ; flavour not first-rate. En- 

 ville : noble looking fruit ; flavour se- 

 cond-rate. 



Culture. This usually commenc is in 

 February. Have the upper thirty in dies 

 of the pit, in which the pots are lo be 

 plunged, filled with fresh tan. He -pot 

 your plants, using any turfy soil, even 

 from a road-side, well chopped to 



Sieces ivhen dry, but by no means rid- 

 led. Nevertheless, it is very good 

 practice to have a richer and mellower 

 compost in a more decomposed state 

 on the potting bench, such as the sur- 

 face of an old cucumber-bed chop- 

 ped, when dry, dung, rotten leaves, 

 and loam altogether (but most of the 

 loam), and then passed through a 

 very coarse riddle ; afterwards adding 

 one- sixth of charred sticks, or rubbish, 

 such as will pass readily through a rid- 

 dle of an inch mesh. 



Use pots which would require but 

 one more shift : the size of the pot for 

 the final shift will determine this ; and 

 pots of about thirteen inches diameter 

 will be sufficiently large for any begin- 

 ner to fruit in. In potting, first place 

 three or four large crocks in such a 

 way, as that at least three bold aper- 

 tures be formed, both for the escape 

 of water and the admission of gaseous 

 matter from below. Over this strew 

 broken crocks and charcoal lumps, 

 large as horsebeans, until the large 

 crocks at the bottom are just concealed. 

 Then strew a layer of the turfy lumps, 

 out of which the loose soil has been 

 ejected by shaking in a riddlo. This 

 done, the ball may at once be inserted, 

 first suffering such crocks as are loose 

 to dislodge themselves from the old ball. 

 Next, throw in another layer of the turfy 

 lumps all round the ball, and on these 

 strew a couple of inches of the mixed 

 compost in a mellow state ; then, with 

 a blunt stick, give the whole a slight 

 pressure all round the ball, add another 

 layer of the turfy lumps, strewing a 

 little of the compost over them ; again 

 press with the stick ; and now place a 

 filial coating of the compost, nearly 



