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branches a series of axillary flowers of a bright orange 

 scarlet, forming long floral wreaths, and is unquestionably 

 one of the finest winter-flowering plants in cultivation. To 

 obtain good handsome specimens of this species, we take 

 some plants that have been resting after the flowermg season, 

 say about June, prune them into form, and place them in a 

 little extra heat. As soon as .the buds begin to swell, we 

 shake oflf some of the old soil, and repot them in the compost 

 recommended above, keeping them in a moist atmosphere, 

 with a temperature ranging from 68° to 75°. As the plants 

 increase in size, they must be shifted into larger pots, accord- 

 ing to the uses for which they are intended ; and they will 

 also require the ends of the growths to be pinched out several 

 times, so as to produce handsome pyramids, or whatever 

 shape the taste of the cultivator may most incline to. Young 

 plants, for dinner-table or haU decoration, must be kept in 

 smaller pots, and supplied occasionally with waterings of 

 weak liquid manure. 



E, splendens. — A totally different-looking plant to the 

 preceding. It is of sturdy branching habit, the stems dark 

 coloured, and closely set with long, stout, sharp thorns. 

 The leaves are rather small, light green in colour, and thin 

 in texture ; and the flowers (bracts) are produced in clusterb, 

 bright red in colour, and admirably adapted for bouquet- 

 making, and for the decoration of the plant-houses during 

 winter. This does well planted against the backwall of the 

 stove, where there is plenty of light ; in this situation it 

 flowers beautifully, and is useful for cutting, instead of dis- 

 figuring the pot plants. Native of Bourbon. 



EUEYCLES. 



A genus belonging to the AmaryUids, and nearly allied to 

 Pancratium ; it contains but few species, and those here 



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