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EUCUOSIA. [Amaryllidace«3.] Stove bulb. Rich strong 

 loam. Increased by offsets. The bulbs require to rest in 

 winter. E. hicolor, scarlet and green, is the best. 



EUGENIA. [Myrtaceas.] A genus of evergreen shrubs, 

 with white blossoms, nearly all of them requiring a stove 

 temperature. Soil, peat and loam equal parts, with sand. 

 Increased by cuttings in sand under bell-glasses. E. Ugni is 

 a beautiful half-hardy shrub, very fragrant. E. apicuLata is 

 hardy, and veiy beautiful in flower. 



EUONYMLFS. Spindle Teee. [Celastraceae.] A genus 

 of hardy shrubs, of which E. Japonicus and a striped variety 

 are fine evergreens with ornamental foliage, requhing slight 

 protection during winter in the climate of London. They 

 grow in common garden soil, and increase by layers, or cuttings 

 planted under hand-glasses. The deciduous kinds are proper 

 for shrubberies. They are not remarkable for beauty in the 

 flowers, but the evergreen species carry a fine foliage ; and 

 some of the other species are ornamental in autumn, from the 

 profusion of three-cornered scarlet fruit which they produce. 



EUPHORBIA. Spurge. [Euphorbiaceae.] The Spurges 

 are mostly succulent or fleshy, often oddly-shaped plants, 

 without attractive flowers, and for the most part destitute 

 of conspicuous colours. The flowers, in fact, are in all cases 

 insignificant, the beauty of such as are showy residing in the 

 colour of the bracts which accompany the blossoms. The 

 hardy annual and perennial species are mostly mere weeds ; 

 but one or two hardy shrubby kinds, as E. characias and 

 E. amyrfdcdoides varie;/ata, are worth a place in the borders. 

 They grow in common dryish soil, and increase by seeds. 

 Some of the stove and greenhouse leafless kinds are interesting 

 from their peculiar forms. They should be potted in sandy 

 loam, kept in the greenhouse, and have very little water in 

 winter. E. splendens, Bojeri, and fuhjeas (the latter often 

 called JacqiiinicEfiora) are very handsome stove shrubs. 

 E. splendens has a branching stem, full of large brown 

 thorns, and bears conspicuous bunches of large waxy scarlet 

 organs, each consisting chiefly of two kidney-shaped bracts, 

 which accompany the true flowers. This species is in flower 

 the greater part of the year, and the blooms are abundant on 

 a slowly-grown plant. In habit it is inclined to be bushy, 



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