ENOYOCLOPHDIA OF GARDENING. 
soil outdoors in Oct. or Nov.; also by other methods advised for 
flowering species. 
FRUIT BEARING SPECIES: P. communis (Pear), white, April to May, 40 ft., 
Europe (Britain) and Asia; germanica (Medlar), white, June and July, 20 to 25 ft., 
Europe, Asia; malus (Apple; Crab), pink, white, May, 20 to 30 ft., Europe 
(Britain); vulgaris (Quince), white or pink, June, 12 to 20 ft., native habitat 
unknown; baccata (Siberian Crab), white, April and May, fruit cherry-like, 
yellow and red, good for jelly making, 15 to 20 ft., Himalayas, Japan, ete 
FLOWERING SPECIES: P. chamemespilus (Bastard Medlar), red, May and 
June, 6 ft., Europe; communis flore pleno (Double-flowered Pear), white, doukie, 
May, 20 to 40 ft.; coronaria (Sweet-scented Crab), rose, May, 20 ft., U. States; 
coronaria flore-pleno, double; floribunda, rose, May, 8 ft., Japan; floribunda 
flore-pleno, double; floribunda Scheideckeri, semi-double; japonica (Japanese 
Quince), Syn. Cydonia japonica, scarlet, March to July, 6 ft., Japan; japonica 
flore-pleno, crimson, double; japonica nivalis, white; Maulei, scarlet, April, 3 to 
4 ft., Japan; Maulei alba, white; Maulei atrosanguinea, crimson; nivalis (Snow 
Tree), rhite, May, 6 ft., Levant; nivalis variegata, variegated; sinensis (Snow or 
Sand Pear), white, April, China; sinensis flore pleno, double; prunifolia, white, 
April, 20 to 30 ft., Siberia; spectabilis, red, April and May, 20 to 30 ft., China and 
Japan; spectabilis flore albo, white; spectabilis flore pleno, double. 
MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES: P. arbvutifolia (Chokeberry), white or purple, May, 
2 to 4 ft., N..America, fruit pear-shaped; Aria (White Beam Tree), white, May and 
June, 20 to 30 ft., ornamentel leaved, N. Temperate Zone; aucuparia (Mountain 
Ash; Rowan Tree), creamy white, May, 10 to 20 ft., berries scarlet, leaves finely 
cut, N. Hemisphere; Sorbus (Service are creamy white, May, 20 to 30 ft., 
berries red, Europe; Toringo (Toringo Crab), white, May, Japan; Toringo flore 
pleno, double. : Z 
Pyxidanthera (Pine-Barren Beauty).—Ord. Diapensiacee. 
Hardy evergreeri creeping shrub. First introduced 1851. 
CULTURE: Soil, equal parts sandy oe & leaf-mould. Position, 
sunny rockeries. Plant, Sept., -Oct., March or April. Propagate by 
seeds sown where required to grow, lightly covering with ‘fine sandy 
peat, Sept., Oct., or March; divison of plants, Oct. or March. 
4 SPECIES CULTIVATED: P. barbulata, white, rose, summer, 2 in., N. 
merica. 
Quaking Grass (Briza media).—See Briza. 
Quamash (Camassia esculenta).—See Camassia. 
Quamoclit (Ipomxa Quamoclit).—See Ipomea. 
Queen Lily.—See Phedranassa. 
Queen of the Orchids.—See Grammatophyllum. 
Queen of the Prairie (Spirza iphataie ses Spirea. 
Queen of the Woods Sedags alba).—See Betula. 
Queen’s Cushion (Saxifraga hypnoides).—See Saxifraga. 
Queen’s-flower (Lagerstremia Flos-regine). — See Lager- 
stremia. 
Queen’s Gilliflower (Hesperis matronalis).—See Hesperis. 
Queensland EIk’s-horn Fern (Platycerium grande).—See 
Platycerium. 
Queensland Spear-Lily (Doryanthes Palmeri).—See Dory- 
anthes. 
Queen’s Stock (Matthiola incana)—See Matthiola. 
Quercus (Oak).—Ord. Cupulifera. Hardy deciduous & evergreen 
trees & shrubs. Orn foliage. Flowers, greenish; male & female organs 
borne in different flowers on the same plant; April. Male blooms in 
long pendulous catkins; females, short, solitary, or clustered. Fruit 
or seeds (acorns), more or less bullet shaped. Autumn. 
CULTURE: Soil, clay, gravelly, sandy, ironstone, or reclaimed 
boggy ground for Common Oak & varieties; chalky or clay ground for 
Evergreen Oak (Q. Ilex); gravelly sandy fur Cork Oak (Q. suber); 
chalky for Q. Mirbeckii and rubra; pamny for remainder. Position, 
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