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is a beautiful species, evergreen, and gay in spring. 
Myrsinites is prostrate, beautifully glaucous in stem and 
leaf, and pilosa major grows erect to a height of fifteen 
or eighteen inches. In spring stems and foliage, as well 
as bracts, are of a pale yellow hue, but during summer 
and autumn the plant takes on reddish tints. E. Wulfenii, 
although a large plant, growing erect to a height of three 
feet, is peculiarly adapted for prominent positions on a 
rockery where a single bush will serve as useful a purpose 
as a pigmy conifer or a flowering shrub. It has long, 
tapering, dark green foliage, with thick light ribs, the 
whole plant being covered with a glaucous film. E. 
epithymoides is another desirable plant, growing over a 
foot high, the yellowish flower heads and bracts of which 
ultimately assume rosy and metallic tints. 
Euphorbias may be propagated from cuttings during 
summer, selecting basal growths about the length of the 
little finger. When severed from the plant, the profuse 
sap, which is milky in appearance, exudes so freely that 
the cutting would be quickly exhausted if left lying for 
even a short time. To obviate this it is prudent to dip 
them, immediately they are cut, in a saucer of either 
powdered lime or charcoal. 
GENTIANA.—If I mistake not the majority of my readers 
would be both surprised and disappointed were the gentians 
missed from this chapter, so wonderfully popular are these 
plants, which include flowers of the richest and brightest 
of blues, the rarest of colours in a fair degree of purity to 
be found in Flora’s kingdom. Be it far from me to dis- 
parage these lovely flowers, or to in any way discourage 
