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excellent fuel and is used for furniture also in many parts 
of the South. 
PENTSTENION. 
A. N extensive genus of hardy and half-hardy herba- 
== ceous plants. Several of the species are common 
from North Carolina to Florida. The more showy species, 
those usually cultivated, are natives of Texas, Oregon, 
Colorado, Rocky Mountains, ete., and Mexico. Those 
introduced into the garden are beautiful plants, growing 
from one to three feet high, with white, pink, scarlet, 
blue, or purple flowers, produced freely from April until 
October. Most of them grow well inalightloam. They 
should have as dry a situation as the garden affords, as 
they suffer more from wet than cold during Winter. 
Several of the California species, of late introduction, are 
very difficult to Winter over in the border; being found 
in a coarse, sandy soil, and their period of rest being the 
dry season, they seem little inclined to adapt themselves 
to our climate. The beauty and profusion of the flowers 
will, however, pay for the protection they may need 
against the elements. Many of the species will flower 
the first season from seed, if sown in the greenhouse or 
an early hot bed, and once transplanted before being 
transferred to the open border. 
ERYTHRINA. 
A. GENUS of ornamental flowering greenhouse shrubs 
== commonly known as Coral trees. They are found 
pretty generally distributed throughout the tropics of 
both hemispheres. All produce scarlet or crimson pea- 
shaped flowers in pairs at the axils of the leaves. Crista- 
