. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. PL A 465 PLU PLATYLOBIUM. Six species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Seed. Sandy peat and a little loam. PLATYLOPHUS trifoliatus. White ash. Green-house evergreen tree. Ripe cuttings. Loam and peat. PLATYSTEMON. Two species. Hardy annuals. Seed. Sandy loam. PLATYSTIGMA lineare. Half-hardy herbaceous. Division. Sandy loam. PLATYSTYLIS. Three species. Hardy herbaceous. Division and seed. Light loam. PLEASURE-GROUND is a collective name for that combination of parterres, lawns, shrubberies, waters, arbours, &c. which are noticed individually in t
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. PL A 465 PLU PLATYLOBIUM. Six species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Seed. Sandy peat and a little loam. PLATYLOPHUS trifoliatus. White ash. Green-house evergreen tree. Ripe cuttings. Loam and peat. PLATYSTEMON. Two species. Hardy annuals. Seed. Sandy loam. PLATYSTIGMA lineare. Half-hardy herbaceous. Division. Sandy loam. PLATYSTYLIS. Three species. Hardy herbaceous. Division and seed. Light loam. PLEASURE-GROUND is a collective name for that combination of parterres, lawns, shrubberies, waters, arbours, &c. which are noticed individually in these pages. One observation may be ap- plied to all—let congruity preside over the whole. It is a great fault to have any one of those portions of the plea- sure ground in excess; and let the whole be proportioned to the residence. It is quite as objectionable to be over- gardened as to be over-housed. Above all things eschew what has aptly been termed gingerbread-work. Nothing of- fends a person of good taste so much as the divisions and sub-divisions we are sometimes compelled to gaze on " with an approving ; PLECTRANTHUS. Six spe- cies. The annual and biennial species by seed; the shrubs and herbaceous by cuttings. All in rich light loam. They are all tenants of either the green-house or stove. PLECTRITIS congesta. Hardy an- nual. Seed. Common soil. PLECTRONIA corymbosa. Green- house evergreen tree. Cuttings. Loam and peat. PLEROMA. Four species. Stove evergreen shrubs. Young cuttings. Sandy loam and peat. PLETHORA. See Extravasated Sap. PLEURANDRA. Seven species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy loam and peat. PLEUROTHALLIS. Twenty-three species. Stove epiphytes. Division. Wood and moss. PLOCAMA pendula. Green-house evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Loam and peat. PLOUGHMAN'S SPIKENARD. Baccharis. PLUM. Prunus domestica. Varieties.—One hundred and twenty- seven are cultivated in the Gardens of 30 the London Horticultural Society at Chiswick. T
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