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EUCROSIA. 



The only species is E. bicolor, which is a very showy 

 bulb from the Peruvian Andes. The flowers are bright 

 vermilion, with a purplish stripe on the outside of the 

 petals, produced in terminal clusters on the slender 

 scapes about a foot high. They should be grown in a 

 warm greenhouse, where they produce their flowers in 

 summer. In winter they require perfect rest; in all 

 respects tret the same as the Amaryllis or the Hippe- 

 astrum, to which natural order they belong. 



EURYCLES. 



A small genus of bulbs, natives of Australia, and 

 allied to Pancratium. This plant will succeed only 

 with hothouse treatment. The flowers are white, and 

 produced in compact umbels in May. The length of 

 time they occupy space in the hothouse, and the care 

 required, is not remunerated by their flowers. 



EVENING FLOWER. 



See Hesperantha, Page 137. 



FEATHERED HYACINTH. 

 See Muscari. 



FERRARIA. 



A small genus of Cape bulbs, valued more highly 

 for their singular appearance than for their real beauty. 

 They are of the easiest culture, flowering freely in pots 

 in the greenhouse in April. The bulbs are small. From 

 four to six can be put into a six-inch pot in autumn, and 

 they will commence to grow in February, when they 

 require plenty of air, sunlight and water. Soon after 

 flowering the foliage dies down, when the pots should 

 be put away in a dry place and remain until the time for 

 growth to again commence. They can then be repotted, 

 or grown on in the same pots, and continued on as long 



