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E. albidum (White Dog’s Tooth Violet).—A rare 
species occasionally met in Iowa and Southward; its 
flowers are white, or nearly so, and the foliage is plain, 
free from the markings that distinguish most of the spe- 
cies. A variety of this has been discovered at Lake 
Superior, with yellow flowers. 
E. grandiflorum.—A species occasionally met in 
the Northwestern States, and in its glory in the North- 
ern Rocky Mountains. It has larger flowers than £. 
americanum, but does not differ materially, from a flor- 
ists’ standpoint, in other respects. 
EKUCHARIS. 
This genus is of recent cultivation, having been 
introduced from New Grenada in 1851, where the species 
are found growing in the marshes in tropical luxuriance. 
The flowers are remarkable for their purity, beauty and 
delightful fragrance. As flowers for florists’ use, or for 
greenhouse decoration, they have no equals in the list of 
bulbs. All the species require the humid atmosphere of 
the hothouse, the ordinary temperature of the greenhouse 
_ being too low for their perfect development. The flow- 
ers are produced in trusses of from four to ten, accord- 
ing to the strength of the bulb and the conditions of 
growth. The impression that generally prevailed soon 
after their introduction, that they were difficult subjects 
to manage, was soon dispelled, and their culture became 
not only common, but very profitable, until the Eucharis 
insect made its appearance, since which time most grow- 
ers have become so discouraged, by repeated failures, 
that they have abandoned their cultivation. But for the 
ravages of this pest the cultivation of the Eucharis would 
be attended with as little difficulty as that of almost any 
popular plant. In fact, but few subjects are more easily 
managed, water and heat being their chief requisites. 
Unlike many other plants, they enjoy massing, and to 
