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PLU 470 PO I<br />

as the consequence <strong>of</strong> a rapid rise may<br />

be a casting <strong>of</strong> the fruit. During the<br />

progress <strong>of</strong> shooting great care must he<br />

taken against sudden variations <strong>of</strong> the<br />

temperature, water very sparingly used,<br />

and every check, by fumigation, be<br />

given to the various insects, which will<br />

be particularly active at this period.<br />

" When the fruit is safely stoned, a<br />

moderate dressing <strong>of</strong> rotten manure<br />

may be spread on the surface <strong>of</strong> the<br />

mould, the heat increased to CS*^, and<br />

a more liberal supply <strong>of</strong> water given.<br />

" After the fruit has obtained a full<br />

house evergreen shrub. Young cuttings.<br />

Loam and peat.<br />

PODOSPERMUM. Nine species.<br />

Hardy herbaceous, biennial, and annual.<br />

The first is increased by division,<br />

and all by seed. Common soil.<br />

PffiCILOCAMPA populi. December<br />

Moth, is found in this month in orchards<br />

sticking against the trunks <strong>of</strong> trees.<br />

The wings are about an inch and a<br />

quarter broad, and <strong>of</strong> a chestnut brown<br />

in colour: on the upper pair there is a<br />

pair <strong>of</strong> incurved bands, and a wavy one<br />

near the centre ;<br />

i<br />

!<br />

the wings have also a<br />

size, and approaches maturity, air may grayish or brownish fringe. The lower<br />

be freely admitted, and water should pair are brown. The caterpillar is<br />

be given in less quantities, and finally ashy gray at the sides, and rather dark-<br />

er on the back, and it has four red<br />

discontinued a few days before gather- j<br />

ing."<br />

—<br />

Enc. Gard.<br />

PLUMBAGO. Eleven species.<br />

Some hardy herbaceous, others stove<br />

and green-house evergreen shrubs and<br />

climbers. P. capensis produces a good<br />

effect when plunged or planted out on<br />

a rich border during summer. P. rhombifolia<br />

is a stove annual ; this is propa-<br />

—<br />

spots on each segment ; at first these<br />

caterpillars are gregarious, under a<br />

silken tent, from which they issue at<br />

night to feed, but after a little time they<br />

become solitary. They feed on various<br />

kinds <strong>of</strong> fruit trees in the early part <strong>of</strong><br />

the summer, and when full grown, they<br />

spin a silken case in which they change<br />

I<br />

,<br />

gated by seed, the others by cuttings, the pups. The December Moth is not<br />

and all in common soil<br />

one <strong>of</strong> the most injurious to fruit trees,<br />

PLUMIERIA. Twenty-two species. but still, in localities where it is found<br />

Stove evergreen shrubs and trees. in tolerable abundance, the caterpillars<br />

Large cuttings, slightly dried. Sandy do considerable damage to the leaves.<br />

ioam, and a little peat.<br />

POCOCKIA cretica. Hardy annual.<br />

Seed. Common soil.<br />

PODALYRIA. Thirteen species.<br />

Green-house evergreen shrubs, Cut-<br />

Hand picking when the caterpillars are<br />

living in society, is the best means <strong>of</strong><br />

diminishing them. Gard. Chron.<br />

POET'S CASSIA. Osyris.<br />

POGONIA. Three species. Hardy<br />

tmgs. Sandy loam and peat.<br />

PODANTHE. Seven species. Stove<br />

evergreen shrubs. Cuttings in spring,<br />

orchids. Offsets. Sandy peat.<br />

POGOSTEMON plectranthoides.<br />

Stove evergreen shrub. Young cut-<br />

slightly dried. Sandy loam and lime<br />

rubbish.<br />

PODANTHUS mitiqui. Hardy evergreen<br />

shrub. Cuttings. Loam and peat.<br />

POD-FERN. Ellobocarpus.<br />

POD CARPUS. Eleven spetings.<br />

Rich sandy loam.<br />

POINCL\NA. Five species. Stove<br />

evergreen shrubs. Seed and cuttings.<br />

Rich light soil.<br />

POINSETTIA. Two species. Stove<br />

evergreen shrubs. Cuttings <strong>of</strong> previcies.<br />

Green-house and stove evergreen ous year's shoots, slightly dried. Rich<br />

trees. P. chinensis, P.macrophyllus, P.<br />

nurifer, and P. verticillatus, are quite<br />

hardy, if grown in a light-soiled border,<br />

sheltered from the north and east, and<br />

sandy loam. Of these plants the most<br />

beautiful is P. pulcherrina. On the<br />

cultivation <strong>of</strong> this we have the foUow-<br />

ing directions from Mr. W. Tillery, the<br />

well drained. Cuttings Light loam, gardener at Welbeck ;<br />

and a little peat.<br />

" Raise the plants from single eyes,<br />

PODOLEPIS. Five species. Hardy (like vines,) from the hard ripened wood<br />

herbaceous. Seed and division. Sandy <strong>of</strong> last year, and re-pot them in sandy<br />

loam and peat.<br />

PODOLOBIUM. Five species.<br />

loam and leaf-mould ; keeping them in<br />

a cucumber-frame, and then in a low<br />

Green-house evergreen shrubs. P. stove, as near the glass as possible.<br />

scandens is a climber. Young cuttings. They do pretty near the glass and not<br />

Sandv loam and peat.<br />

drawn, and then put into the stove in<br />

September, watering freely when in<br />

PODOPTERUS riiexicanus. Green- ,

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