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to penetrate the Ground* if it be ve- 

 ry hard. 



With this Management the Plants 

 will greatly advance, and in four or 

 five Years will produce Flowers and 

 Fruits, which in warm Seafons are 

 perfected enough to grow ; fo that 

 the Plants maybe multiplied there- 

 from very fait. 



This Tree may alfo be propaga- 

 ted by budding or inarching it upon 

 the common Horfe-cheftnut ; which 

 is the common Method practifed by 

 the Nurfery-men : but the Trees 

 thus raifed will never arrive to near 

 the Size of thofe which are produ- 

 ced from Seeds ; nor will they grow 

 near fo fait. 



Such of thefe Trees as are raifed 

 from Seeds, if planted in a good 

 Soil, will grow to twenty - five or 

 thirty Feet high, and produce great 

 Numbers of beautiful red Flowers, 

 which commonly appear the ttcgiti- 

 ning of "June ; at which Seaion it 

 makes a beautiful Appearance a- 

 mongft other hardy Tree*. 



PEACH. Vide Pcrfica. 



PEAR. T/^Pyrus. 



PEAS. Vide Pifum. 



PEAS EVERLASTING. Vlk 

 Lathyrus. 



PEDICULARIS, Rattle, Cocks- 

 comb, or Loufewort. 



There are four different Kinds of 

 this Plant, which grow wild in Paf- 

 tures in feveral Parts of Engl and ^\ 

 in fome low Meadows are very 

 troublefome to the Paitures ; efpeci- 

 ally one Sort with yellow Flowers, 

 which rifes to be a Foot high, or 

 more, and is often in fuch Plenty, as 

 tot)e the molt predominant Plant : 

 but this is very bad Food for Cattle; 

 and when it is mowed with the Grafs 

 for Hay, renders it of little Value. 

 The Seeds of this Plant are general- 

 ly ripe by the time the Grafs is mow- 

 ed : fo that whenever Perfons take 



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Grafs-feed for fowing, they mould be 

 very careful, that none of this Seed 

 is mixed with it. As thefe Plants 

 are never cultivated, I lhall not 

 trouble the Reader with their feve- 

 ral Varieties. 

 PELECINUS. 



The Characlers are J 

 // hath a -papilionaceous ( cr Pea- 

 bloom J Flower, out ofnvhofe Empale- 

 merit rifes the Point al, <which after- 

 tvard becomes a plain bicapfular and 

 bivalve Pod, indented on each Side 

 like a SaiVf and filled ivith plain kid- 

 ney Jhapcd Seeds. 



We know but one Species of this 

 Plant ; vtXi 



PelECINUS vulgaris. Infi . R. H. 

 Common Pelecinus. 



This Plant is preferv'd in Botanic 

 Gardens, for the fake of Variety : 

 it is an annual Plant ; fo the Seeds 

 fhould be fown early in April, on a 

 Bed of frefh light Earth, in Drills 

 about eighteen Inches afunder : and 

 when the Plants are come up, they 

 mould be carefully clcar'd from 

 Weeds ; and where they are too 

 clofe, they fhould be thinn'd, leav- 

 ing them fix or eight Inches Diftance 

 in the Rows, and obferve always to 

 keep them clear from Weeds, which 

 is all theCuhure they require. Thefe 

 Plants fpread on the Ground, and 

 from the Wings of the upper Leaves 

 the Flowers are produced on (lender 

 Footflalks, which are fmall, and of 

 a dirty red Colour ; thefe are fuc- 

 ceeded by Pods, which are fiat, and 

 indented on both Sides, refembling 

 the Saw of the Saw-fifh. 



PEL LITORY OF THE 

 WALL. Vide Parietaria. 



PENTAPHYLLOIDES. Vide 

 Porenrilla. 



PENY-ROYAL. Vide Pulegi- 

 um. 



PEONY. Vide Paconia. 

 PEPO, Pum ion. 



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