230 GREEX-IIOUSE REPOTTING. \_Ma7^cJl. 



Erlabotrya japonica, Loqiiat, or 3Iesp\Ius Jajyonica, 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 color, and of tartish flavor. 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 perfectly hardy in the 

 Southern States, and forms a handsome evergreen. (Soil 

 No. 11.) 



Urodiums, 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 U. incarndtum, E. crassifdUurriy and 

 E. lacinidtum are the finest; culture similar to Geranium, 

 The flowers of these are scarlet, pentapetalous and veiny. 

 (Soil No. 10.) 



Erytliiina cristdgdlU, or Coral plant. If this magnificent 

 scarlet flowering plant is desired to be kept in a pot or tub, 

 it must have a repotting every month till September : 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. 



Escallunia, 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. glandiddsa, white; and E. bifida, 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 

 rowing trees of New Holland ; foliage very diversified, 



