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GARDEN FLOWERS. 



fleshy root, which is very liable to decay in winter, if kept too 

 damp. The best place to keep the root is. in a cool part of 

 the greenhouse, in the soil, which should be nearly, but not 

 quite, dry. In the spring, the crown may be excited slowly 

 in a greenhouse, or close frame ; but, as the summer draws 

 on, the plant will grow freely enough in the open air, where 

 it should have a branchy stake, or a trellis six or eight feet 

 high'. It may be kept in a pot trained around stakes, cylin- 

 der-fashion, and may be increase"d by cuttings. The flowers 

 of this kind are less funnel-shaped than is usual among the 

 plants of this order. 



E.filiforine (thread-shaped) ; stove twining perennial, 10 feet ; 

 flowers purple, in October; West Indies; 1823. E. purga 

 (purgative) ; jalap ; tuberous twining perennial ; 10 feet ; flowers 

 rose-color, in September ; Mexico ; 1838. E. repandum (wavy- 

 edged) ; stove twining perennial ; flowers red, in August ; West 

 Indies; 1793. 



