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sitive to the touch. Plants can be raised early in spring from 
seeds, with the greatest of ease. They will do well in any or- 
dinary soil. 
The seeds can be sown, two or three inasmall pot. After 
germination the strongest should be kept. Plenty of water 
and good drainage are essential. 
Panicum variegatum, a grass with white-variegated foliage, 
of a creeping habit, is very useful for edging window-boxes 
and vases, or in pots for flower-stands. Propagated by cuttings 
of trailing shoots. Grows well in sandy, fibrous soil in a half- 
shady position. 
Pelargonium crispum, with roundish leaves, P. fragrans 
with trilobate, and P. guercifolium with deeply incised leaves 
remotely resembling oak-leaves, are grown for the sake of their 
strongly scented foliage, under their respective names of Apple-, 
Nutmeg-, and Rose-geraniums. Propagated and grown as Ger- 
aniums. 
Pellionia pulchra. A neat and beautiful foliage-plant with 
fleshy, trailing stems and obliquely cordate, leathery leaves of 
a blackish-green color, dull purple beneath. Will grow easily 
from cuttings in any ordinary soil. Handsome for terrariums. 
Peperomia is a small genus of very dwarf foliage-plants of 
neat habit, very useful for edging or for growing in terra- 
riums. P. argyrea, leaves orbicular, green, marbled with white. 
P. Saundersii, leaves orbicular, succulent, green banded with 
white. Easily increased by division and grow well in light, 
sandy, vegetable soil. 
Pilea muscosa. Artillery-plant. Soft-wooded, erect plants 
with very small, reddish leaves, and minute flowers that open 
suddenly when breathed upon, dispersing the fine white pollen. 
Propagated by cuttings and grown in light, fibrous soil. 
