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 he 
appropriate. From the weakness of its shoots, it wifi 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 natu- 
rally belongs to it, and it then blossoms throughout the sum- 
mer in the greatest prodigality. 
“ Like j 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.*’ 
Fig. 1. represents the stamen, arising from the throat of 
the corolla ; 2. is the ovary, with the two fleshy glands at the 
base. 
