LIST OF FLOWERS 



DRYAS. Valuable little plants for the Alpine Garden, their 

 natural habit of growth being to spread over the surface of limestone 

 rocks. Both D. Drummondi, with its fine yellow flowers, and D. 

 octopetala, with its compact tufts of white flowers, are excellent. 



DUSTY MILLER. See Senecio. 



ECCREMOCARPUS (sometimes known as Calampelis). The 

 E. Scaber is a useful climber for walls and trellises, and its handsome 

 racemes of orange-scarlet bloom are very effective. It is a perennial, 

 but its roots should be protected during the winter. It may be raised 

 from seed sown in heat, and if sown early in the spring it will be ready 

 to bloom out of doors the same year. 



ECHINACEA (otherwise Rudbeckia). The E. purpurea, popu- 

 larly called the Red Sunflower, is a hardy perennial with large 

 flowers of a rose-purple hue often measuring some 4 inches across. 

 It grows from 3 to 4 feet high and blooms freely during late summer 

 and autumn. Easily raised from seed. 



ECHINOPS (Globe Thistle). A fine hardy plant, growing from 

 3 to 5 feet high, and useful for making ornamental groups in the Wild 

 Garden. There are several varieties, E. ritro and E. banaticus being 

 very good, but perhaps the best is E. ruthenicus, with its round- 

 headed flowers of beautiful blue. It is easily increased by division 

 or raised from seed, and it thrives in any soil. 



ECHIUM {Viper's Bugloss). Of this family E. plantagineum, 

 with its showy flowers of rich violet, is one of the handsomest, while 

 E. vulgar e (our native plant), with its long racemes of blue flowers, is 

 very useful. They are best treated as annuals and are easy of 

 culture. Seed sown in the open in spring will flower the same year, 

 while for early summer bloom sowing should be made in autumn. 



ERANTHEMUM. This plant is well suited for cultivation as 

 a greenhouse perennial. There are many species, of which E. 

 pulchellum with blue flowers, E. bicolor with white and red flowers, 

 and E. longifoUum with scarlet flowers, are the best known. 



ERANTHIS [Winter Aconite). Even before the first spring 

 flowers appear Winter Aconite gladdens us with its bright yellow 

 blossoms, and its beautiful shining foliage is in itself an ornament. 

 It flourishes best on a warm, chalky soil, in a half-wild state on banks 

 or under trees, and to gain its full effect it should be planted in large, 

 bold patches. 



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