238 GREtfN-HOUSE REPOTTING. [March. 



Denticuldta, VARIOUS CO- Cruenta superba. 



Fascicularis, LOURS. Rubida, 



Hispidula, Tubiflora, 



Mammosa, Jlbetina, Ventricosasuperba- 



Pubescens, JBdccans, ' 



Tenella. Cerinthoides, 



Eriabotryajaponica, Loquat, or Mespllus japonica, is a 

 fine plant, with large lanceolate, distinctly serrated leaves, 

 white underneath; small white flowers on a racemose 

 spike, and produces a fruit about the size of a walnut, of 

 a fine yellow blush colour, and of tartish flavour. If it 

 flowers in the autumn, it will require the heat of a hot- 

 house to ripen the fruit. It is of very easy culture, and 

 its noble aspect is never passed unobserved. It is per- 

 fectly hardy in the southern states, and forms a handsome 

 evergreen. (Soil No. 11.) ' 



Erodiums, Heron's bill. There are about thirty species, 

 all of a geranium character, and there are among them some 

 very pretty flowering, soft wooded, shrubby, herbaceous, 

 and annual plants. Only a few of them belong to the 

 green-house, of which E. incarnatum, E. crassifolium, 

 and E. laciniatum, are the finest ; culture similar to Gera- 

 nium. The flowers of these are scarlet, pentapetalous and 

 veiny. (Soil No. 10.) 



Erythiina cristdgdlli, or Coral plant. If this magnifi- 

 cent scarlet flowering plant is desired to be kept in a pot 

 or tub, it must have a repotting every month till Septem- 

 ber: to keep it in fine blooming condition, it is worthy of 

 extra care, as it will bloom three times during the season, 

 if well treated. (Soil No. 18.) For other methods, see 

 Flower Garden for April, May and November. 



Escallonia, a shrubby genus, of about ten species, of 

 rather neat blooming plants, of a strong shrubby habit. 

 They require great encouragement to flower them well, if 

 kept in pots : the best mode -of treatment would be to plant 

 them in pits with other half hardy shrubs. E. rubra, red 

 flowering; E. glandulosa, white; and E. blfida, pink, are 

 the finest. (Soil No. 12.) They are perfectly hardy south 

 of Virginia, and we are not certain but they may become 

 acclimated here. 



Eucalyptus, above fifty species of them, and the tallest 



