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ECHITES ATROPURPUREA. 
In cultivation, it requires the temperature of the stove, and may be trained to the 
rafters of the house, or to a wire trellis spread entirely over the roof. If the branches 
are intermingled with those of E. suberecta and Stephanotis Jtoribundus, their 
flowers will make a very harmonious and delightful combination. The plant may 
either be kept in a large pot, or planted in a prepared pit or compartment, which 
is duly exposed to light, and not liable to become too wet. For soil, the ordinary 
mixture of sandy loam and heath-mould will be appropriate. From the weakness of 
its shoots, it will need pruning in the winter, and may perhaps be improved by 
having its branches stopped while they are growing. It is not till after a specimen 
has been established for two or three years that it acquires the ornamental character 
which naturally belongs to it, and it then blossoms throughout the summer in the 
greatest prodigality. 
Like E. suberecta, it can doubtless be trained on a barrel-shaped trellis. The 
shoots must, however, be twined very closely, on account of the scantiness of 
foliage ; and if, after they have reached the prescribed height, they are turned 
back over the previous coils, the trellis will be well covered, and a good display 
will assuredly be the result. 
Cuttings of the young wood root with facility, when treated in the usual way. 
