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Peony seeds should be sown in light soil as soon as 
ripe, which will be about the first of September, and 
covered with half an inch of soil. They will come up 
the following spring, and may remain in the seed bed 
for two years before they are transplanted, scattering a 
little earth over them when the leaves decay, at the end 
of the growing season. After two years growth in the 
seed bed, they should, in October, be transplanted into 
well prepared nursery rows, and put out six inches apart, 
and three inches deep. Here they are to remain until 
they flower, which, if in good soil, and with good culti- 
vation, will be the foarth year after seed-sowing. 
PERUVIAN DAFFODILS. 
See Hymenocallis Amancaes, Page 157. 
PEYROUSIA. 
See Lapeyrousia, Page 169. 
PHADRANASSA. 
Queen Lily. 
A small genus of rather curious bulbs, growing at a 
high elevation among the rocks in the Peruvian Andes. 
They are more interesting than showy or handsome. 
The flowers are about two inches long, in the form of a 
slender tube, of a light pea-green color, tipped with 
pink. They flower in winter, after which the bulbs 
require a long season of rest. Their whole period of 
growth does not exceed three months. The cool green- 
heuse is suited to them. They increase by offsets. 
PHALLOCALLIS. 
See Cypella, Page 76. 
PHYCELLA. 
A small genus of half-hardy bulbous plants from 
the mountain regions of Mexico, which is now included 
in Hippeastrum, Page 13. 
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