. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2037. Pyrus Soulardi (X 3^). Italy: Ivs. broad-ovate in outline, with several sharp lobes: fls. white, about 1 in. across, in open terminal corymbs: fr. K in. long, elliptic-oblong, red. 7423.—P. Sikkimensls, Hook. f. "Very similar to P. baccata, but the leaves (which attain 5x3 in.) are more acutely
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 2037. Pyrus Soulardi (X 3^). Italy: Ivs. broad-ovate in outline, with several sharp lobes: fls. white, about 1 in. across, in open terminal corymbs: fr. K in. long, elliptic-oblong, red. 7423.—P. Sikkimensls, Hook. f. "Very similar to P. baccata, but the leaves (which attain 5x3 in.) are more acutely serrate, woolly beneath and on the petiole and on the midrib above, the peduncles and calyx are also woolly. * * * I suspect it will prove a form of P. ; —Hooker. Himalayas, 7,000-10,000 ft altitude. 7430. :313. L. H. B. PYXIDANTHilRA (Greek, box and anthera; tho anthers open transversely like the lid of a box). The Pvxie, Floweking Moss or Pixe- BARREN Beauty is a pretty little creeping plant, native only to New Jersey and North Carolina, which is covered in early spring with small white, 5-petaled flowers and pink buds. It sometimes blooms side by side with the trailing arbutus. These flowers are sold in the streets of Philadelphia, but the Pyxie is scarcely cultivated. It grows best in moist, sandy soil. In partial shade and soil rich in vegetable mold the buds are pale pink; in full sunlight and poor soil the buds are reddish. The Pyxie belongs to a small family of excep- tionally interesting plants remarkable for their beauty* distinctness and geographical distribution. They repre- sent a vanishing race, and there are many different opinions as to their place in the vegetable kingdom. As a genus Pyxidanthera has but one species, and its nearest ally is Diapensia, which differs in having the anthers opening longitudinally; also the fls. are pe- duncled in Diapensia, while in Pyxidanthera each flower is solitary at the end of a sh
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