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unobtainable, cuttings of side-shoots are used, and are 
struck under bell-glasses in heat. 
Eucuaris.—Offsets are so freely produced by these 
handsome flowering stove bulbs that other means of 
increase are not often resorted to. Seed is sometimes: 
ripened, and may be sown in heat in early spring, but 
plants so raised take a longer time before reaching the 
flowering size. 
Eucomis.—Offsets taken in autumn are the means of 
increasing these somewhat curious bulbs. 
Euxauia (Miscanthus).—These handsome ornamental 
grasses are readily increased by dividing the clumps in 
March and April. 
Evonymus.—Propagate the hardy deciduous kinds by 
seed and by cuttings of ripened shoots in autumn; the 
evergreen sorts by cuttings of firm shoots in early 
autumn, either in a cold frame or in a shady border. 
E. radicans variegata, planted deep or earthed up, will 
root up the stems and can be divided like an herbaceous 
perennial. 
EUPATORIUM.—Propagation of the hardy species is 
easily effected by division and cuttings; the stove and 
greenhouse kinds by cuttings of young shoots in spring. 
Eupnorsia.—E. fulgens (syn. E. jacquiniflora) and 
E. pulcherrima (better known under the name of Poin- 
settia) are those chiefly grown for their highly-coloured 
bracts. The propagation of both is very similar, except 
that cuttings of E. jacquiniflora are usually inserted 
three or four round the edge of a small pot and the 
Poinsettias singly in small pots without crocks so that 
the roots may not be broken when transferring them to 
a larger size. Old plants that have been in a dormant 
condition aré placed in heat, and when the shoots have 
