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As this plant makes but a mean appearance, fo it is 
rarely cultivated, except in botanic gardens for the 
fake of variety ; but fuch as are defirous to have it, 
Ihould fow the feeds on a moidlhady fpot of ground, 
and when the plants come up, if they are thinned 
and kept clean from weeds, they will require no 
other culture. 
PEONY. See P^oni a. 
PEPO. See Cucurbita. 
PERENNIAL PLANTS are fuch whofe roots 
will abide many years, whether they retain their leaves 
in winter or not thofe which retain their leaves are 
called Evergreens, but fuch as call their leaves are 
called Deciduous or Perdifols. Some of thefe have 
annual (talks, which die to the root every autumn, 
and (hoot up again in the fpring to which Jungius 
gives the title of Radix redibilis. 
PERESKIA. Plum. Nov. Gen. 37. tab. 26. Cadus. 
Lin. Gen. Plant. 539. Goofeberry, vulgo. 
The Characters are. 
It hath a Rofi-fhaped flower conflfting of feveral leaves , 
which are placed orbicularly, whofe cup afterward becomes 
a foft, fiefhy , globular fruit befet with leaves . In the 
middle of the fruit are many flat roundijh feeds included in 
a mucilage. 
We have but one Species of this plant, viz. 
Pereskia ( Aculeata ) aculeata, fiore albo, fru£tu fiavaf- 
cente. Plum. Nov. Gen. 37. Prickly Pcrejkia with a 
white flower , and a yelloaoijh fruit. Cadus caule tereti 
arboreo fpinofo, foliis lanceolato-ovatis. Lin. Hort. 
Upfal. 122. Callus with a taper, tree-like , prickly ft alk, 
and fpear-fljaped oval leaves. 
This plant grows in fome parts of the Spanifh Weft- 
Indies, from whence it was brought to the Englifh 
fettlements in America, where it is called a Goofe- 
berry, and by the Dutch it is called Blad Apple. It 
hath many (lender branches which will not fupport 
themfelves, fo mu(t be fupported by (takes, otherwile 
they will trail on whatever plants grow near them. 
Thefe branches, as alfo the (tern of the plant, are be- 
fet with long whitilh fpines, which are produced in 
tufts. The leaves are roundifh, very thick, and fuc- 
culent, and the fruit is about the fize of a Walnut, 
having tufts of fmall leaves on it, and hath a whitifh 
mucilaginous pulp. 
It may be propagated by planting of the cuttings 
during any of the dimmer months : thefe cuttings 
fhould be planted in pots filled with frefh light earth, 
and plunged into a moderate hot-bed of tanners bark, 
obferving to (liade them from the fun in the heat of 
the day, as alfo to refrefti them every third or fourth 
day with water. In about two months the cuttings 
will have made good roots, when they may be care- 
fully taken out of the pots, and each planted into a 
feparate pot filled with frefh earth, and then plunged 
into the hot-bed again, where they may remain dur- 
ing the dimmer feafon ; but at Michaelmas, when 
the nights begin to be cold, they (hould be removed 
into the (love, and plunged into the bark-bed. Dur- 
ing the winter feafon the plants mud be kept warm, 
and Ihould be watered twice a week ; but in cold 
weather it (hould not be given in large quantities. 
In dimmer they muft have a large (hare of air, and 
mud be more plentifully watered, but they (hould 
condantly remain in the dove; for though they will 
bear the open air in dimmer in a warm fituation, yet 
they will make no progrefs if they are placed abroad j 
nor do they thrive near fo well in the dry dove, as 
when they are plunged in the tan ; fo that the bed 
way is to fet them next a trellis, at the back of the 
tan-bed, to which their branches may be fadened, to 
prevent their trailing on other plants. This plant has 
not as yet produced either dowers or fruit in England, 
but as there are feveral plants pretty well grown in the 
gardens of the curious, we may exped fome of them 
will flower in a (hort time. 
PERICLYMENUM. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 608. 
tab. 578. Caprifolium. Tourn. Inft. R. H. 608. tab. 
379 Lonicera. Lin. Gen. Plant. 210. Honeyfuckle 5 
m French, Chevre -feuille. 
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The Characters are. 
The empalement of the flower Is Jmall, and cut into five 
parts fitting upon the germen. lie flower is of one petal , 
having an oblong tube , which is cut at the top into five 
figments which turn backward . It has five awl-floaped 
fiamina almofi the length of the petal, terminated by oblong 
fummits, and a roundijh germen fituated below the flower, 
fupported by a fender fly le, crowned by an obtufiefigma . 
The germen afterward becomes an umbilicated berry with 
two cells , each containing one roundijh feed. 
This genus of plants is by Dr. Linnaeus placed in the 
firft fedion of his fifth ciafs, which includes thofe 
plants whofe flowers have five fiamina and one dyle* 
and joins it to the Lonicera of Plunder, and the Cha- 
in secerafus of Tournefort j but as the flowers of this 
genus differ greatly in their form from either of 
thofe genera, fo I have taken the liberty of fepararing 
it from them. ' ~ ° 
The Species are, 
1. Periclymenum (Semper virens) floribus capitatis ter- 
• minalibus omnibus connatis fempervirentibus. Honey - 
Juckle with flowers growing in heads at the end of the 
branches, and evergreen leaves joined round the fialk, 
Periclymenum perfoliatum Virginianum fempervirens 
& florens. H. L. Perfoliate , evergreen , Virginia Ho L 
ney Juckle which always flowers , commonly called Trumpet 
Honeyfuckle. 
2. Periclymenum ( Racemofum ) racemis lateralibus op- 
pofitis, floribus pendulis, foliis lanceolatis integerri- 
mis. Honeyfuckle with flowers in long bunches growing 
oppofite, hanging down, and entire fpear-Jhaped leaves. 
Periclymenum racemofum (lore fiavafcente, frudu 
niveo. Hort. Elth. 306. tab. 228. Honeyfuckle with 
yellowifh flowers growing in bunches , and a flnowy fruit. 
3. Periclymenum (V erticillatum ) corymbis terminal!- 
bus, foliis ovatis ve.rticillatis petiolatis. Honeyfuckle 
with round bunches of flowers at the end of the branches , 
and oval leaves growing in whorls, having foot ftalks . 
Periclymenum aliud arborefcens ramufis inflexis, 
(lore corallino. Plum. Cat. 17. Another tree-like Ho- 
ney -Juckle with inflexed branches , and a coral-coloured 
flower. 
4. Periclymenum ( Germanicum ) capitulis ovatis imbri- 
catis terminalibus, foliis omnibus difiindis. Honey- 
fuckle with oval imbricated heads terminating the ftalks , 
and the leaves diflinbl. Caprifolium Germanicum. Dod. 
p. 41 1. The German Honeyfuckle. 
5. Periclymenum ( I tali cum ) floribus verticillatis ter- 
minalibus felfilibus, foliis fumrnis connato-perfoliatis. 
Hort. El iff. 45. Honeyfuckle with whorls of flowers fit- 
ting clofe at the ends of the branches , and the upper leaves 
j ur rounding the ft alk. Caprifolium Italicum. Dod. p. 
411. Italian Honeyfuckle. 
6 . Periclymenum ( Vulgar e ) floribus corymbofis ter- 
minalibus, foliis hirfutis didindis, yiminibus tenui- 
oribus. Honeyfuckle with a corymbus of flowers termi- 
nating the Jialks, hairy leaves growing diflinbl , and very 
Jlender branches, commonly called Englijh Honeyfuckle , or 
W oodbine. 
7. Periclymenum ( Americanum ) floribus verticillatis 
terminalibus feffilibus, foliis connato-perfoliatis fem- 
pervirentibus glabris. Honeyfuckle with whorled flowers 
fitting clofe , terminating the ftalks, and flmooth ever- 
green leaves furrounding the ftalks. Caprifolium per- 
foliatum fempervirens, floribus fpeciofis. Hort. Chelf. 
The evergreen Honeyfuckle, having beautiful flowers. 
The fird fort grows naturally in Virginia, and many 
other parts of North America, but has been long 
cultivated in the English gardens by the title of Vir- 
ginia Trumpet Honeyfuckle. Of thefe there are two 
varieties, if not didind fpecies, one being much 
hardier _ than the other. The old fort, which came 
from Virginia, has (Longer (hoots ; the leaves are of 
a brighter green ; the bunches of flowers ate larger, 
and deeper coloured than the other which came from 
Carolina. Thefe plants have the appearance of the 
common Honeyfuckle, but the (hoots are weaker 
than any of thofe, except the wild fort called Wood- 
bine; they are of a purplilh red colour, and fmooth. 
The leaves are of an oblong oval ihape inverted, an c | 
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