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D. Canari^nse. — Balm of Gilead. — This plant smells 

 of citron, especially when rubbed between the fingers. 

 Sown on a hot-bed early in spring, it may be planted out 

 in the borders like other tender annuals. Flowers pale- 

 blue or purple ; from July to September ; three feet high ; 

 From the Canaries. 



ECCREMOCARPTJS. 



[From the Greek words meaning suspended fruit.] 



Eccremocarpus SCaber. — Rough Eccremocarpus. — 

 This, which is sometimes called Calampelis^ is a beautiful 

 climber, a tender perennial, which flowers the first year. 

 The flowers are produced in panicles or racemes, are of a 

 bright orange color ; it flowers profusely the latter part 

 of the summer, but it is necessary to start the plants very 

 early in a hot-bed, and when the plants have five or six 

 leaves, they should be transplanted into pots, and turned 

 into the ground in June. The seeds are diflicult to vege- 

 tate. Properly speaking, it is a green-house plant. 



ECHINACEA.— Cone-Flower. 



[Name from the Greeli for Hedgeboy, in allusion tlie spiny chaff of the disk.] 



Echinacea purpurea. — Purple Cone-flower. — A native 

 of Ohio and other western States, and formerly called 

 Rudbeckia purpurea. It grows from three to four feet 

 high, and has a rough stem and leaves. The disk of the 

 flower is very rich, appearing in the sun of a golden 

 crimson ; the rays are purple, in some varieties whitish, 

 and one to two inches long. A hardy perennial, easily 

 propagated by division of the root. 



