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EVERGREENS. 
tings. 
American gardens, and the different 
sorts, including the white-fruited 
variety, are much esteemed for the 
gay effect of their fruit-vessels in 
the shrubbery during the whole of | 
autumn.—Eb. | 
Eurno'rsia. — Euphorbidcee, — | 
Some of the kinds are British weeds, 
such as the Spurge Caper; but 
other kinds are thorny shrubs, re- 
quiring the heat of a stove in Brit- 
ain, and producing flowers of a most 
brilliant scarlet. The most beauti- 
ful kind is E. filgens, Karwinsky, 
E. Jacquinieflora, Hook, which 
was introduced in 1836, by Mr. 
Rauch. The best plants are raised 
from seed; but cuttings may be 
struck by plunging them into the 
bark-bed, and not covering them 
with a glass. The flowering plants 
should be grown in loam, mixed 
with lime rubbish, or pounded brick. 
Evta’x1a— Leguminose.— Aus- 
tralian shrubs, with yellow and 
orange pea-flowers, which in Eng- 
land require a greenhouse. They 
should be grown in light peaty soil, 
and receive the general treatment 
of Australian shrubs. There are 
only two species. 
Ev‘toca.— Boraginee. — Hardy 
and somewhat coarse-growing an- 
nuals and perennials, which require 
the usual treatmentof similar plants. 
See Awnnvats and PERENNIALS. 
They will grow in any common 
garden soil, and the annuals should 
be sown in March or April, as, 
though they are natives of Califor- 
nia, they are not injured by heat. 
Eventnc Primrose.—See CEno- 
3BE RA. 
Evercreens.—No garden should 
be without its due proportion of 
evergreens; and these plants are 
still more essential in small gardens 
than in Jarge ones. Their advan- 
tages are, that they afford a screen 
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[The Spindle-Tree is com- | 
monly known as the Strewberry- | 
Tree, or Burning-Bush, in our | 
EVERLASTING. 
to secure privacy in winter as wel 
as summer ; that they preserve an 
appearance of verdure at all sea- 
| sons; and that they do not disfigure 
the walks by falling leaves, which, 
where there is no regular gardener, 
render it very difficult to keep a 
place neat. They are also very 
useful in affording a rich back- 
ground to those ornamental trees 
and shrubs which produce their 
flowers before their leaves; such as 
the double-blossomed Peach, the 
Almond, the Snowy Mespilus, and 
Magnolia Conspicua. It is the want 
of evergreens that gives the gardens 
in the neighbourhood of Paris, 
and most of the other Continental 
cities, such an air of meagerness 
and poverty. But it cannot there 
be remedied, as few evergreens will 
resist the cold of their winters. 
This may appear strange to those 
who have experienced the heat of 
the Continental summers ; but the 
fact is, that their winters are as 
much colder than ours as their sum- 
mers are warmer, and thus the 
average heat of the year is nearly 
the same. Alternate seasons of 
great heat and cold are favourable 
to deciduous plants, as the heat 
ripens their wood, and the cold 
gives them a season of complete 
repose when they have lost their 
leaves; but a moist temperate cli- 
mate, like that of Britain, is more 
suitable to evergreens, which con- 
tinue in a growing state nearly all 
the year. van 
In street-gardens, besides the 
evergreen trees and shrubs, ‘it is 
advisable to select a few evergreen 
herbaceous plants, such as Pinks 
and Carnations, Wallflowers, &c., 
io give an agreeable effect to the 
beds during winter, when they are 
devoid of flowers. 
Evercreen Tuorn.— The Py- 
| racantha.—See Crat#'eus. 
Everuastinc.—See GNnaPua‘h. Uk 
and Hewicury'sum. 
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