A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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ing to it rags dipped in a saturated solution
of caustic potash, leaving them on
for twelve hours ; or by rubbing a hot
PYROLIRION aureiim. Green-house
bulb. Offsets. Sandy loam.
PYRULARIA pubera. Half-hardy
iron along the putty.
If the gardener does make putty, the
whiting should be well dried, and then
pounded and sifted till it becomes a fine
powder, and is quite free from grit.
The whiting, a little warm, should be
gradually added to the oil, and wel
mixed by means of a piece of stick, or
a spatula. When it is sufficiently stiff,
it should be well worked with the hand
deciduous shrub. Cuttings. Light
loam.
PYRUS. Forty-four species, and
very numerous varieties. Seed, cuttings,
and grafting. Light loam, well drained.
See Apple, Pear, and Service.
PYXIDANTHER A barbulata. Half-
hardy trailer. Cuttings and division.
Peat, and a little sandy loam.
QUAMOCLIT. Ten species. Herb-
on a table, and afterwards beaten on a
stone with a wooden mallet, till it becomes
a soft, smooth, tenacious mass.
A ball of putty, when left some days.
becomes somewhat hard, but may be
aceous, and annual. Q. sanguinea is
evergreen. Young cuttings or seed.
Light rich loam.
QUENOUILLE is a fruit tree, with
a central stem, and its branches trained
easily softened by beating.
PYCXANTHEMUM. Seven species
in horizontal tiers, the lowest being the
ongest, and the others of course gradu-
Hardy herbaceous. Division Peat, ally lessening in length as they do in
with a little light loam.
age, so that the tree, like a spruce fir,
PYCNOSTACHIS carulea. Stove acquires a pyramidal form.
annual. Seed. Lifiht rich loam. QUERCUS. The Oak. Forty-eight
PYRALIS forficalis. Cabbage-gar- species, and many varieties. Hardy
den Pebble Moth. Its appearance and
habits are thus detailed by M. Ivollar:
—"The head, back, and upper wings
evergreen and deciduous trees. Seed,
and grafting for some of the merely ornamental
kinds. Deep clayey loam in
of the moth are hazel-brown, and brown- valleys. Q. rerris. Bitter Oak. Q.
ishgold; the antennas light brown ; the robur or sessiliflortim. Common Oak.
abdomen and under wings whitish. On
the upper wings are two distinct, and
Q. ilex. Evergreen Oak.
QUICKSET, the same as the Haw-
two faint deep rusty-brown stripes,
The first brood flies in May, and the
thorn, or Whitethorn,
cantha. See Hedge.
Cratcegus oxyasecond
in August. The caterpillar is
found in May and June, and the second
generation in September and October.
Ql'IXCE. Cydonia vulgaris.
]'arieties:—Common ; Apple-shaped ;
Pear-shaped ; and Portugal. The last
It has a light-brown head, and a yel- is the best, and very distinct from the
lowish-green body, with blackish stripes others. C. sinensis, the Chinese Quince,
running lengthwise, and blackish dots has been fruited in this country, but it
having fine white lines between, and
white incisions and spiracles. Its length
is about eight lines. When these caterrequires
a wall. The fruit is very dif-
Cerent from that of either the common
or Portugal quinces; it is cylindrical,
pillars are numerous, they do important
damage to the cabbage tribe, and horse-
about six inches in
lugly gritty.
length, and exceedradish.
PYRASTER. Pyrus communis py-
Method of Propagation and general
Culture.—The trees may be raised from
raster.
seed sown in autumn, but there is no
' P Y R E T H RU M . Fifty species. certainty of having the same or any good
Hardy herbaceous, and green-house fruit from seedlings. But the several
evergreen shrubs, except a few hardy varieties may be propagated by cuttings
annuals, and P. simplicifolium, which
is a stove evergreen trailer. The shrubs
are increased by cuttings, the herbaand
layers ; also by suckers from such
trees as grow upon their own roots, and
by grafting and budding upon their own
ceous
seed.
by division, and the annuals by
A light rich loam suits the
or pear-stocks.
The propagation by cuttings, layers,
whole.
PYROLA. Eight species. Hardy
and suckers, may be performed
autumn, winter, or early spring.
in
herbaceous. Division and seed. Shady Choose young wood for the cuttings
border of peat, with a little light loam. and layers. They will be rooted by.