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rules can be formed to govern this ing up in all directions, and they will
point.'" Gard. Chron. blossom beautifully, if the subsoil be
So27 used by the best Pansey growers congenial to them. If laid in the soil,
round Manchester, is the surface soil of cuttings of the choicest pansies may be
' an old pasture and partially decomposed taken off at any season, even in the
cow-dung, about one part of the latter depth of winter. If it is convenient for
to two of the former.
Bed.—This should have a southeast
the amateur to procure them at that season,
he may lay the whole cutting beaspect,
unshaded by trees, but very neath the surface, either in coil or
sheltered Irom wind, be three feet wide, longitudinally, so that it is not buried
with a path all round, and then, having above half an inch or a little more. It
dug out the soil, be made eight inches will
deep of the above compost. The edges due
spring up at most of the joints in
season vigorous and healthy."
supported with slate. Gard. Chron.
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Propagation. — By Seed. — Sow, as Box for exhibiting Blooms. — Dr.
soon as it is ripe, or any time in spring Lindley says, that— " the best constructor
summer will do, in pans of the same
compost plunged in an open border,
cd box for exhibiting twenty-four Hearts-
ease is made of deal, of the following
In six weeks the seedlings appear, dimensions, viz., twenty inches long.
Save seed from the best shaped flowers,
impregnating these mother plants with
one wide, and five inches
lid was made to unhinge;
deep; the
a sheet of
pollen from bright-eyed flowers. Gather zinc was fitted inside, resting upon a
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the seed pods as they ripen. rim ; four rows of six holes each were
By Cuttings.—The best season is mid cut in the zinc at three inches apart,
August. Take short jointed cuttings under each hole was a zinc tube sol-
from the approved plants, and insert
their stems about two inches deep in
dered to the plate, and intended
contain the water. The apertures
to
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some of the compost in a north border, admit the flower should be made in the
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covering with a hand-glass. They will form of a keyhole, as it will admit part
have rooted in a month, then pot them,
and keep in a dry situation until frost
of the calyx and keep the flower in a
flat position, the outside may be paintarrives,
then put them in a cold frame ed green, but the zinc plate should be
plunged in coal ashes, covering the painted of a dead white."
frame with a mat when frost is severe, Chron.
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and never letting the sunshine come Insects.—The worst animal
Gard.
foes of
upon them during frosty weather, but the Pansey are the slug and the snail,
admit air freely. To destroy and keep away these ver-
Planting in Bed.—Do this early in Imin, water the bed late of an evening
April, in dry weather, placing the plants in moist weather with lime water, and
in rows twelve inches apart each way. sprinkle the surface pretty thickly with
Shade for a few days; and if night frosts fresh wood ashes. See Agromyza.
occur shade them from the sun during Disease.—The Pansey is liable to
the day after. They require no after- root-rot, if the soil is not well drained,
culture but frequent hoeing ; never give If grown in light, fresh earth, in an
water even in the driest summers, but open border, it is never subject to the
at such seasons cover the surface of the disease. If a plant, which shows by
bed with fresh cow-dung, sprinkled its yellow hue that infection has ocover
with earth, to keep it from being curred, be taken up, the decayed roots
unsightly.
removed, and it be transplanted into a
Winter Protection.—Mr. Mearns, of soil and situation such as I have dethe
Manchester Zoological Gardens,
recommends the Pansey grower, " in^
stead of using frames and glasses, which
are not always at hand, to trim and
clean the ground, and loosen the sur-
scribed, it will speedily send forth fresh
radicles, and recover its vigour.
PANSEY FLY. Agromyza.
PANTILES. See Bricks.
PAPAVER. Poppy. Twenty-six
face carefully, and then to cover the species and many varieties. Hardy
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whole of the plants about half an inch herbaceous and annuals. The former
deep with a good rich compost. In the are increased by division, the latter by
i spring the plants will be found perfectly seed ;
PAPER
light rich loam,
protected, and every extremity spring- 1
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