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crimson and yellow flowers in May, about nine inches 

 high, is the best known. Niveum is a splendid plant, 

 with white, bronzy, shield-shaped leaves. Macranthum is 

 also a grand plant ; the type has blue and white flowers, 

 but there are several varieties. Pinnatum elegans 

 (true) is a beautiful yellow. Musschianum, with green 

 foliage and white flowers in spring, is very pretty. Propa- 

 gation is by division in early summer. 



ERINUS. Charming little plants, of dense, compact 

 growth, and bearing abundance of small flowers in spring. 

 The type is Alpinus, a plant growing six inches high, 

 with rose or rosy magenta flowers in spring ; there is 

 a white variety, albus ; and a deep rose, carmineus. 

 Propagated by seed in spring. It should be protected 

 from heavy and protracted winter rains. 



ERITRICHIUM NANUM. Essentially a plant for 

 the combative flower-lover, whose aim in life is to grow 

 plants that do not want to be grown. It is a little blue- 

 flowered gem, but gives much trouble ; it is impatient of 

 winter rain, and cannot be kept alive unless protected 

 in winter. It should be grown in gritty soil in a position, 

 such as a nearly vertical crevice, where rain cannot beat 

 on it, or be covered in winter with a square of glass. 



ERODIUM (HERON'S BILL). The species chamse- 

 dryoides (Reichardi) with white flowers, and macra- 

 denum, white, veined with rose, are well known. They 

 are low, Geranium-like plants, and easily grown. 



ERYTHRONIUM (DOG'S TOOTH VIOLET). The com- 

 mon species, with its marbled leaves and pretty flowers, 

 is worth growing ; and still more so are Johnsoni, a 

 beautiful Californian species with large rose flowers in 

 spring, and giganteum. with large cream flowers, both 



