Plumbago 



(216) 



Podachsenium 



Nine for Dessert : 

 Dennistou's Superb. 

 Early Transparent Gage. 

 Green Gage. 

 *Jefferson. 



Transparent Gage. 



Angelina Burdett. 



Kirke's. 



*Coe's Golden Drop. 



Iteiiie Claude de Bavay. 



Three select varieties. 



PLUM COE'S GOLDEN DKOP. 



Nine for Kitchen : 

 *Rivers's Early Prolific. 

 Orleans. 

 Gisborne's. 

 *Victoria. 



*Monareh. 

 Cox's Emperor. 

 Pond's Seedling. 

 Diamond. 

 Wyedale. 



* Three select varieties. 



Enemies of Plums. Gumming sometimes follows 

 pruning, and is encouraged by over-feeding, deep, 

 loose soil, and stagnant water at the roots. The 

 branch attacked should be removed, and the wound 

 dressed with any wet-excluding compound. Cor- 

 rect cultivation is the best, though not a sure pre- 

 ventive. Mildew may be arrested by dusting with 

 sulphur, or spraying with potassium sulphide (see 

 FUNGICIDES). The Plum Aphis sometimes causes 

 great trouble. Dressing with a petroleum mixture 

 or the caustic soda solution (see INSECTICIDES) is 

 recommended. The larva? of Carpocapsa funebrana, 

 known as Red Grubs, cause the fruits to fall 

 prematurely ; these should be at once collected and 

 burned. There are other pests, but they rarely do 

 serious injury where the best methods of cultiva- 

 tion are adopted. 



PLUMBAGO. 



Description. Showy, hardy herbaceous plants, 

 or greenhouse or stove shrubs (ord. Plumbagineae), 

 several of which are among the most popular of 

 garden plants. The indoor species are of shrubby 

 habit, with more or less rambling branches. 



Propagation. The herbaceous species by division 

 in autumn or spring; the indoor species by cut- 

 tings 4" long in a close, warm propagating case, in 

 spring. 



Soil. Ordinary garden soil for the herbaceous 

 species; good fibrous loam and leaf mould, with 

 sufficient silver sand to ensure porosity, for the 

 indoor species. 



Other Cultural Points. The most popular'species 

 is capensis. It may be grown in a great variety of 

 ways. As a pot plant, trained to stakes, a wire 

 trellis or balloon, or planted out, it makes an excel- 

 lent subject for clothing a greenhouse end, roof, or 

 pillar. It should be spurred back annually to 

 within a bud or two of the old. wood. Rosea and 

 its variety superba are best treated as annuals, 

 cuttings being rooted each spring and the young 

 plants stopped a few times to produce six or eight 



shoots. By growing in an intermediate tempera- 

 ture, nice plants in 5" or 6" puts may be had by 

 autumn, to flower during winter. 



Principal Species and Varieties : 

 cciTulea, 2', sum., bl., europii'a, 3', Sep., hcly., 



slender, 

 capensis, 10' to 30', aut., 

 bl. 



allm, wh. 

 Other Species : 



grandiflora (wr capeusis). 

 Lnrpcntne (r Ceratostig- 



purpurea (we europasa). 

 rosea, 2', win., spr., ro. 

 superba, larger flowers. 



St., 



pulrliella, 3', sum., 



bl., yio. 



ma plumbaginoides). zeylauica, IV, Je., st., 



micrautha, 2', Jy., hdy., wh. 



wli. 



PLUMERIA. 



A fine but neglected genus of stove trees (ord. 

 Apocynacece), with pretty, often fragrant, flowers 

 in clusters at the ends of the branches. Propaga- 

 tion, by cuttings of ripe shoots in spring, under a 

 hand-light, in sand, and placed in slight bottom 

 heat. Soil, sandy loam and fibrous peat or leaf 

 mould. 



Principal Species : 

 acutifolia, 20', Je., pk., 



wh. (st/H. acuminata). 

 bicolor, id', Jy., wh., yel. 

 Jamesoni, 4',Jy., yel., red. 

 lambertiaua, 10', Je., wh., 



yel. (.\'/N. Gouaui). 



lutea, 20', Je., pk., yel. 

 obtusa, 10', Jy., wh. 

 rubra, 10' to 20', Jy.,red. 



The Fraugipaui. 

 tricolor, 1;V, Jy., wh. F 



yel., red (SI/H. Kerii). 



POA. (MEADOW GRASS.) 



A genus of hardy Grasses (ord. Grammes?) of 

 little horticultural use, though several are of agri- 

 cultural value. For growing under glass the striped 

 variety of trivialis is a useful plant. Annua is 

 largely used in forming lawns by means of seeds 

 instead of turfing ; it is one of the best Grasses for 

 growing beneath trees. 



Principal Species and Varieties : 



jinuua. 



flabellata (*//. Dactylis 



ca-spitosa and Festuca 



flabellata). 



nemoralis. 



pratensis. 



i-eiotiua (fi/>i. palustris). 



trivialis. 



albo-vittata. 

 PODACHyENIUM. 



Tender shrubs (ord. Coruposita;), requiring an 

 intermediate temperature. Andinum, :!'. summer, 





PLUM, KIUKE'S. 



white, yellow, is the best known species. It likes 

 loamy soil, and is recommended for sub-tropical 

 bedding, 



Plumed Tkutle (see 

 Plum, Fir (sec Pnemnopitys clet/ans). 

 Plum, Guinea (Parinariiim cxcehiim). 

 Plum, Maiden (gee Comocladia). 

 Plutella (r Diaiiioiitl-hiifi' Moth). 



