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habitation ; and an avenue, as an object EREMURUS spectabilis. Hardy her- 

 in a view, gives to a house, otherwise baceous. Division. Common soil, 

 inconsiderable, the air of a mansion. ERIA. Twelve species. Stove 

 Buildings which answer one another at epiphytes. Division. Peat and pot- 

 the entrance of an approach, or on the sherds. 



bides of an opening, have a similar ERICA, Heath. Four hundred and 

 effect ; they distinguish at once the ninety-five species, besides very many 

 precincts of a seat from the rest of the varieties. Most of them green-house, 

 country. Some pieces of sculpture, but a large number are hardy, and are all 

 also, such as vases and termini, may evergreen. Cuttings or layers. Sandy 

 perhaps now and then be used to extend peat. See Heath. 

 the appearance of a garden beyond its ERIGERON. Forty species. Hardy 

 limits, and to raise the mead in which herbaceous and annuals. Division or 

 they are placed above the ordinary im- seed. Common soil, 

 provements of cultivated nature. At! ERINUS. Five species. Green- 

 other times they may be applied as house evergreens, and hardy herbace- 

 ornaments to the most polished lawns ; [ ous. Division or seed. Sandy loam, 

 the traditional ideas we have conceived : ERIOBOTRYA. Two species. Half- 

 of Arcadian scenes correspond with such [ hardy evergreen trees. Cuttings, seed, 

 decorations; and sometimes a solitary | and grafting on the white-thorn. Leaf 

 urn, inscribed to the memory of a per- i and peat mould. 



son now no more, but who once fre- ERIOCEPHALUS. Five species, 

 quented the shades where it stands, is '• Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut- 

 an object equally elegant and interest- I tings. Sandy loam and peat, 

 ing. ERIOCOMA. Two species. Half- 



" The occasions, however, on which hardy evergreen shrubs. Cuttings, 

 we may with any propriety trespass ' Common soil. 



beyond'the limits of cultivated nature, ' ERIODENDRON. Four species, 

 are very rare ; the force of the charac- ' Stove evergreen shrubs. Seed. Rich 

 tercan alone excuse the artifice avowed j loam and sandy peat, 

 in expressing it." — Whateley. \ ERIOGONUM. Five species. Hardy 



EPACRIS. Eighteen species. Green- [herbaceous. Seed. Loam and peat, 

 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.— ; ERIOL.T.NA. Two species. Green- 

 Sandv peat. house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 



EPIDENDRUM. Sixty-eight species. \ Sandy peat. 

 Stove epiphytes. Offsets. Peat and' ERIOPHYLLUM. Two species, 

 potsherds ''■ H'U'dv. Division. Common soil. 



EPIg"(EA. Two species. Hardy' ERIOSOMA. A genus of insects 

 evergreen trailers. Layers. Sandv peat nearly synonymous with ApMs. 

 and loam ' -^^ ^I'saria. Poplar Louse. 



E P I L B I U M. Seventeen species. ' ^- lanigera. See American Blight. 

 Hardy herbaceous. Seed or division. ; ERIOSPERNUM. Eight species. 

 Common soil. Green-house bulbs. Suckers. Sandy 



EPIMEDIUM. Five species. Hardy P^-it. 



herbaceous. Division. Sandy peat. ' ERIOSTEMON. Ten species. Green- 



„r.T„ , „rT,io rru ■ TLi 1 house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. 



EPIPACTIS. Three species. Hardy = ° 



orchids. Division. Sandy peat and 

 loam. 



EPIPHYLLUM. Eleven species. 

 Stove evergreen cactacea;. Cuttings. 

 Sandy loam. 



EPIPHYTES grow upon other plants, 

 but, unlike parasites, do not extract 

 from them nourishment. 



ERANTHEMUM. Eleven species. 

 Stove and green-house evergreen 

 shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy peat. 



ERANTHIS. Two species. Hardy 

 tubers. Offsets. Sandy loam. 



Sandy peat and loam. 



ERISMA floribunda. Stove ever- 

 green shrub. Cuttings. Peat and 

 loam. 



ERITHALIS. Two species. Stove 

 evergreen trees. Cuttings. Rich loam 

 and peat. 



ERNODEA montana. Half-hardy 

 evergreen trailer. Division. Gravelly 

 soil. 



Twenty-seven species, 

 herbaceous. Division. 



ERODIUM. 

 Chiefly hardy 

 Common soil. 



ERPETION. 



Two species. HalP- 



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