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THE NURSERY-LISi! 389
is responsible for the entire process from seed-time to harvest and
death. The practice of buying perennials from nurserymen deprives
the amateur of one of the choicest satisfactions in plantgrowing.
To see young things coming up, to handle them with
skill and patience, to provide the conditions they most require,
to watch the result of a Fear’s good effort2 - all this is a part of
good gardening.
Pereskia (Barbados Gooseberry). C’ac/nccx~~
Seeds when obtainable. Cuttings, as described under tact i.
I’. acukatn is much ustIc as a stock for zJ.gocactus. Y. gra&$oZia
id sometimes used for the same purpose, ai; it is fully as good as the
other spec*ies. (‘uttings of I’. nclrlfda can by mark a foot or more in
length, and of sllfIi&nt siztt for immediate use ; or the graft may be
inserted when the cutting is made. See Ca,cti, page Xl.
Perilla. Lnbiafn.
Readily raised from SW&~ sown in t.1~~ opc~ when weather is
warm. or started unrttlr glass and transplanted ; tends to become
spontaneous.
Periploca. rl,~flr~l,i~fflaff’tr.
Increased mostly* by lq*c~rs or grccnwoocl cuttings under glass, in
summer or autumn. Root-cuttings succeed. Seeds are also employed.
Peristeria. Orch idacur.
Increased by division or separat,ing the pseudobulbs, as growth
commences. See Orrhids, pge 372.
Peristrophe. ,4cnuflzncrw.
Propagated b>- softwood cuttings taken at a,ny time and placed
in a warm bed.
Pernettya. Ericacvfx.
Propagation is by seeds, or cutting5 of half-ripened wood in
summer under glass ; also by layers and suckers.
Persea. Lazmcece.
Raised from seeds. For growing under glass, layers of ripened
shoots may be made in autumn, or cutt,ings of firm shoots. See
A‘cocndo.