Peat-Earth - Petalidium
Description
This section is from the book "A Dictionary Of Modern Gardening", by George William Johnson, David Landreth. Also available from Amazon: The Winter Harvest Handbook: Year Round Vegetable Production Using Deep Organic Techniques and Unheated Greenhouses.
Peat-Earth - Petalidium
Peat-Earth
See Bog Earth.
Peat-Earth Plants
See American Plants.
Pec Tin Aria
Pec Tin Aria articulata. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings in spring. Sandy loam and lime rubbish.
Pedicularis
Twenty-one species, chiefly, if not all, hardy herbaceous. Sandy light loam and peat.
Pegging-Down
Pegging-Down is a process which has to be pursued annually, in arranging the lower branches of shrubs, etc., on flower borders. It is usually done with little hooked sticks; but Mr. Beaton, the scientific gardener at Shrubland Park, says, - "We take a handfull of matting, and cut it into four-inch lengths; then divide each piece into three or four pieces; we double these pieces round the shoots, and fasten the ends of the matting in the soil with a small dibber, or with the fore finger. In this way a boy may train and tie down all the plants in a flower garden in less time than it would take to procure pegs for two or three beds, and the work is much neater than when done with the best pegs." - Gard. Chron.
Pellitory Of Spain
Peltaria
Peltaria alliacea,herbaceous, and P. glastifolia, annual, are hardy plants. Seed. Light loam.
Penaea
Eight species. Greenhouse evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy peat.
Pennyroyal
See Mentha pulegium.
Pentapeles
Two species. Stove herbaceous. Cuttings. Light rich loam.
Pentaraphia
Pentaraphia longiflora. Stove evergreen shrub. Cuttings. Rich light loam.
Pentas
Pentas carnea. Stove shrub. Cuttings. Light rich loam.
Pentlandia
Pentlandia miniata. Hardy herbaceous twiner. Probably by division. Rich light loam.
Pentzia
Pentzia flabelliformis. Green-house evergreen shrub. Ripe cuttings. Loam and peat.
Peppermint
Mentha piperita.
Pepper Vine
Ampelopsis bipin-nata.
Perennial
A plant that lives for more than two years.
Pereskia
Five species. Stove cactaceous plants. Cuttings. Sandy loam.
Pergularia
Three species. Stove evergreen twiners. Cuttings. Rich loam.
Pericallis
Pericallis tussilaginis. Greenhouse herbaceous. Seed and cuttings. Loam and peat.
Perilomia
Perilomia ocymoides. Greenhouse evergreen shrub. Young cuttings. Sandy peat.
Periploca
Four species. Hardy twiners, except the stove climber, P. mauritiana. Layers and cuttings. Common soil.
Periptera
Periptera punicea. Stove evergreen shrub. Seed and cuttings. Loam and peat.
Peritoma
Peritoma serrulata. Hardy annual. Seed. Sheltered border.
Periwinkle
Pernettia
Persea
Persea gratissima. Stove evergreen shrub. Layers and ripe cuttings. Turfy loam aud peat.
Persian Sun's-Eye
Tulipa ocu-lus solis.
Persica
Two species and many varieties. Hardy deciduous trees. P. vulgaris the Peach, and P. laevis the Nectarine, which see.
Pesomeria
Pesomeria tetragona. Stove epiphyte. Division of bulbs. Wood covered with moss.
Persoonia
Eighteen species. Green-house evergreen shrubs. Ripe cuttings. Sandy loam and peat.
Petalidium
Petalidium barlerioldes. Stove shrub. Cuttings. Rich light loam.
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