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ringing can seldom be permitted in 

 these two months, hut sprinklings on 

 the surface 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 con- 

 tinual requisition, and even the walks 

 sprinkled, if necessary. If the weather 

 become unusually severe, rather give up 

 five degrees on the thermometer 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 per- 

 mitted. 



February. The temperature will 

 now begin to rise again slightly ; 

 growth recommences, and repotting 

 succession pines, and the renewal of 

 bottom heat is needed ; this brings us 

 to the point from which we commenced. 



Insects. See Acarus and Coccus. 



PINE-TREE. Pl'nus. 



PINE ASTER BEETLE. Bostri'chus. 



PINGUI'CULA. Butter-wort. (From 

 pinguis, fat ; the greasiness of the 

 leaves. Nat. ord., Butterworts [Lenti- 

 bulacese]. Linn., 2-Diandria \-Mono- 

 gynia.) 



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). . Yellow. April. 

 North America. 1823. 



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



April. Britain. 



lu'tea (yellow). . Yellow. June. Caro- 



lina. 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 con- 

 sidered varieties of the Clove Pink 

 (Dianthus caryophyllus} . Some think 

 that the B,ed Pinks only are derived 

 from this, but that the Pheasant's- eye 

 Pinks are the offspring of the Feathered 

 Pink {Dianthus plumarius}. 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 ribbons, or stripes, or flakes of 



olour 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 is, or should bo, 

 both the colour and the white. They 

 are divided into classes, called Bizarre* 

 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 there being 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 purple 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, but ramifying to- 

 wards 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 maybe, but feather- 

 ing 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 

 base 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 outside 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 

 cultivated in every respect similarly to 

 the Carnation. Pipings of it are best 

 made at the end of May, or early in 

 June. 



