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ESCALLONIA. 



THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. 



EUCNIDE. 



For a full account of the western 

 Erythroniums, see Flora and Sylva, 

 p. 250, vol. i. 



ESCALLONIA. The Escallonias in 

 cultivation are often beautiful shrubs, 

 unfortunately sometimes perishing in 

 hard winters save in favoured districts. 

 In mild places the common E. mac- 

 rantha succeeds in the open, but, as a 

 rule, it must be regarded as a wall 

 shrub. Even in the mild districts it 

 is cut down during severe winters, but 

 it usually shoots up again strongly 

 in the returning spring. There is a 

 variety called sanguinea, with deeper 

 coloured flowers. Somewhat similar 

 to E. macrantha is E. rubra ; but the 

 foliage is less handsome and the 

 flowers are paler. E. Philippiana is 

 very beautiful and hardy, as it may 

 be grown as a bush in the neighbour- 

 hood of London. It is an evergreen 

 with small leaves, and bears a profusion 

 of large panicles of small white flowers. 

 It is a first-rate shrub, and one of the 

 best of the Escallonias. E. pterocladon 

 is very free-flowering, the small flowers 

 being white and pink, while E. punc- 

 tata has dark red flowers somewhat 

 similar to those of E. rubra. Another 

 species, E. montevidensis, also known 

 as E. floribunda, bears large, loose 

 clusters of white flowers, and there 

 are seedling forms known under 

 different names, especially in seaside 

 gardens. Among these, E. Ingrami 

 is one of the best, being hardier than 

 E. macrantha, though not so hand- 

 some. 



Perhaps one of the best of all is 

 E. langleyensis, a hybrid between 

 E. macrantha and E. Philippiana. It 

 is a shrub of rapid growth, 8 to 10 feet 

 high, with slender wand-like shoots 

 gracefully arched, bearing small neat 

 leaves of a cheerful yellow-green, 

 becoming darker with age, and the 

 stems wreathed throughout their length 

 with vivid crimson flowers as large as 

 a sixpence, in July. In cold places it 

 needs the shelter of a wall, but is fairly 

 hardy, and so beautiful as to be worth 

 trying anywhere. S. America. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA (Calif ornian 

 Poppy). Brilliant annual flowers, of 

 easy culture in ordinary soil. To 

 have them in all their beauty, they 

 should be sown in August and Sep- 

 tember for early summer bloom. 

 They may be sown later, and should 

 then be allowed to bloom where they 

 are sown. They get deeply and firmly 

 rooted, and flower much longer than 

 if sown in spring. They are very 



hardy, and snails and slugs do not 

 molest them. There are some half a 

 dozen kinds, well worth growing, viz., 

 E. californica ; E. crocea, saffron 

 colour ; E. c. alba, white ; E. c. 

 Mandarin, orange and crimson, very 

 fine; E. c.fl.-pl., double ; E. c. rosea, 

 and E. tenuifplia ; and new forms are 

 raised from time to time and given in 

 the seed lists. They are plants that 

 should not be used to any great extent 

 in the select flower garden. 



EUCALYPTUS (Gum Tree) .Large 

 and handsome Australian trees and 

 shrubs, of which, in the south of 

 England and Ireland, a few of the 

 species live in the open air. Only in 

 the more favoured districts have these 

 trees any chance, and they never 

 present the graceful and stately port 

 which they show in countries that 

 really suit them, such as parts of 

 Italy and California. I think these 

 trees are unfitted for our climate, and 

 even in Algeria, where many species 

 were planted by the French Govern- 

 ment, the result, as I saw it some 

 years ago, was anything but good. 

 Among the hardier kinds are E. 

 globulus, Gunnii, citriodora, amyg- 

 dalina, cor data. 



EUCHARIDIUM. Pretty hardy 

 annuals of the Evening Primrose 

 family, thriving under the same treat- 

 ment as all annuals from California. 

 They may be sown in autumn for early 

 summer flowering, or from March to 

 June for late summer and autumn 

 bloom. They flower about eight 

 weeks after sowing, and remain in 

 bloom a long time. Three specie? 

 are cultivated E. concinnum, about 

 9 inches high, with many rosy-purple 

 blooms ; E. grandiflorum, larger rosy- 

 purple flowers, streaked with white, 

 which has a white variety (album], 

 and a variety with pink flowers 

 (roseum) ; and E. Breweri, an elegant 

 new annual, more robust, and with red 

 flowers of a deeper, richer colour than 

 E. grandiflorum. These species are 

 of secondary importance in the flower 

 garden, and like many other annuals, 

 they suffer through being judged 

 by spring-sown plants of short-lived 

 bloom . 



EUCNIDE. E. bartonioides is a half- 

 hardy annual of the Loasa family, 

 from Mexico. The stems are about 

 i foot high, and bear sulphur-yellow 

 flowers, i inches across, showy in 

 August and September when several 

 are expanded. Seeds should be sown 

 in heated frames in early spring, but 



