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but unless pains be taken it will soon get ill-shaped : the out- 

 line should be formed while it is youn<?, and the plant must 

 be checked when it is too luxuriant. Thus, if any branches 

 are becoming too vigorous, take off their ends, to throw- 

 strength into the rest of the plant. The soil should be half 

 loam and half peat, with a sixth part sand. The slower the 

 growth is made, so that it be healthy, the better and the more 

 abundant will be the bloom. E. Bojeri is similar, but smaller, 

 and requires precisely similar treatment. E. fulgens is totally 

 different in habit, having long, slender, thornless stems, and 

 altogether a light and elegant structure. The branches pro- 

 duce bright-looking lance-shaped leaves, and towards their 

 upper extremities bear a profusion of brilliant scarlet floral 

 organs of circular outline, consisting of five rounded bracts, 

 placed like the petals of an ordinary flower. Being very 

 milky, old plants are apt to die back when cut, unless kept 

 very diy until they renew their growth. Cuttings strike 

 readily with bottom heat in sand. As soon as rooted they 

 should be potted into three-inch pots. When they start into 

 growth take out the top, or heart : this will encourage lateral 

 shoots, which, as soon as they have grown two inches, may be 

 topped in a similar manner, and the other shoots being pro- 

 duced, a good busily plant will be formed, which must then 

 be shifted occasionally as it fills the pot. Longish shoots will 

 be produced, which will in due time bear flowers all along 

 their upper half, and may be trained or disposed in any way 

 that may be preferred. The best plans, however, are to train 

 spirally around a cylinder-shaped trellis, or, comm.encing with 

 an upright, to train downwards over a balloon-shaped trellis. 



EURYBIA. [Compositas.] Greenhouse or half- hardy 

 evergreen shrubs, many of them with neat foliage, and showy 

 from the number of their flower-heads. Soil, sandy loam and 

 leaf-mould. Propagated by cuttings. 



EURYCLES. [Amaryllidaceae.] Pretty greenhouse bulb. 

 Soil, light mellow loam, with one-fourth rotten cowdung and 

 one-eighth sand. Increased usually by offsets. The bulbs 

 require rest in winter. E. syivestris and E. nervosa require 

 stove heat. 



EUSTOMA. [Gentianaceae.] Handsome greenhouse bien- 

 nials, requiring particular cultivation. They must be grown 



