combination. The plant may either be kept in a large pot, 

 or planted in a prepared pit or compartment, which is duly 

 exposed to light, and not liable to become too wet. For soil, 

 the ordinary mixture of sandy loam and heath-mould will be 

 appropriate. From the weakness of its shoots, it will need 

 pruning in the winter, and may perhaps be improved by 

 having its branches stopped while they are growing. It is 

 not till after a specimen has been established for two or three 

 years that it acquires the ornamental character which natu- 

 rally belongs to it, and it then blossoms throughout the sum- 

 mer in the greatest prodigality. 



" Like E. suberecta, it can doubtless be trained on a barrel- 

 shaped trellis. The shoots must, however, be twined very 

 closely, on account of the scantiness of foliage ; and if, after 

 they have reached the prescribed height, they are turned back 

 over the previous coils, the trellis will be well covered, and a 

 good display will assuredly be the result. 



"Cuttings of the young wood root with facility, when 

 treated in the usual way/' J 



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