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sr cuttings. The Nepal speciesre-| Enxta'ntuus—-Ericdcee.—-Green- 
quire a greenhouse. house shrubs, with very handsome 
Exper.—See Sameu'cus. arbutus-like pink and white flowers, 
Exeruant’s Foot.—See Trstu- | which are produced from September 
DINA‘RIA. to February. The plants are very 
Exicuxy'sum.— See Hexicury’.| difficult to manage. They should 
SUM. be grown in very sandy loam, mix. 
Exsno’'L1z1a.—-Labicte—-A plant | ed with a little peat; and they 
of no beauty, the flowers of which | should be allowed plenty of air and 
somewhat resemble those of the | light, with only enough of heat to 
common Mint, but are smaller and | exclude the frost. They will not, 
less conspicuous. ‘The plant is only | however, bear planting out, as their 
noticed here from the resemblance | roots appear to require to be con- 
of its name to that of the Esch-| fined in a small space, and the 
scholtzia, which induced Dr. Lind-| plants rarely do well if they are 
ley te propose to change the name | transplanted, unless before the roots 
of the iatter genus to Chryseis; in| have pushed through the ball of 
the same way as it was proposed | earth in the pot, as the roots seem 
to change the name of the Dahlia} to dislike fresh soil. The pots 
on account of its similarity to Da- | should be well drained with crocks, 
lea. As, however, the German | and care should be taken neither to 
names are found to be quite as dis- | over-water the plants, nor to let 
tinct as Dahl and Dale, the Esch-| them become very dry. They are 
scholtzia retains its first appellation. | propagated by cuttings of the ripe- 
Em1't1a.— Composite Cassini's | wood, which are struck in sand, un- 
name, adopted by Professor De Can- | der a bell-glass, but without bottom- 
dolle, in his new arrangement of the | heat ; and which, when transplant- 
Composite, for the Cacalia cocct-| ed, should have balls of earth at- 
nea, C. sonchifolia, and C. sagittd-| tached. For this reason, only two 
ta of Linnzus. or three cuttings should be put into 
Empr‘rrum. — Empétree.— The | each pot, and these should be as far 
Crow Berry. Little heath-like | asunder as possible. 
plants, with pretty flowers and very| E!pacrrs. — Epacridee. — The 
shewy berries, adapted for growing | Epacris is a New-Holland shrub, 
onrockwork. They shouldbe grown | which the first settlers mistook for 
in peat soil, and kept rather dry. a kind of Heath, and which is still 
ENCHANTER’s NIGHTSHADE.—NSee | called the Heath in Australia, where 
CircE#. the true Heath (/rica) is unknown. 
Enpocens. — Monocotyledonous | The E'pacris should be grown in a 
plants. The trees belonging to this | soil composed of turf bog, chopped 
division, such as the Palms, Tree | small, but not crumbled, and mixed 
Ferns, &c., increase very little in| with sand; and they do best in 
thickness as they advance in age; | double pots, with moss, kept moist, 
but their wood becomes gradually | stuffed between; as, if the hot sun 
more 3olid, by the woody fibres | comes on the outside of the pot, the 
formed every year in the interior of | tender roots, which soon become 
their stems. Trees of this kind | matted round the ball of earth in 
have mo medullary rays, and their | the pot, will be withered, and the 
trunks, when cut down, show none | plants will receive a severe check, 
of thos? marks of the successive |if they are not killed. The pots 
layers 9° wood which are so con-| should be well drained, by filling 
spicw>as in exogenous trees. them about a third full of broken 
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