NATURAL ORDER ERICE/E. 
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cording to Ruiz and Pavon it is there administered in the form of 
infusion for medical purposes. It will grow well in common poor 
soil, and requires similar treatment to the last. The (E. caespitosa 
often perishes from too much moisture ; and to prevent this, all the 
damp soil should he removed from the roots, on the approach of 
winter, say about the end of October, and there should he put in 
place of it a quantity of dry soil. The plant may then he covered 
with dry saw-dust, and a pot set over it with the hole well stopped, 
to prevent the entrance of rain or snow. Let it remain there until 
the beginning or middle of March; and then take away the pot and 
saw-dust, and put some good fresh earth about the roots. Place a 
hand-glass over the plant for a few days, until it will bear exposure. 
To Propagate this Species, take up the plants in the beginning of 
October, shake the soil from them, and break the roots into small 
pieces about one inch and a half long. Plant about six of these 
pieces in each forty-eight sized pot, filled with good light soil, and 
made rather dry. Set them in a frame, and give them no water 
through the'winter. In March begin to water them, very gently at 
the first, increasing the quantity as they grow, and they will soon 
become fine plants. The Gil. anisoloba is a fine shewy plant, but 
unless well protected through the winter, after the same manner as 
Gd. caespitosa, it seldom survives. It thrives best in peat and loam. 
If the seeds be sown in the beginning of March on a hotbed, and the 
plants be taken up with a trowel in bunches, and placed in the bor¬ 
ders at the end of April, they will flower in June the first year, and 
produce plenty of seeds. 
All the other perennials are very easy of culture, and with the 
exception of (E. fruticosa, macrocarpa, rnissourensis pallida, plan- 
ca, and Fraseri, will grow in any common soil. These six species, 
however, require to be planted in sandy peat earth. They may all 
be increased by cuttings, taken off in May, and planted in light rich 
soil under a hand-glass, by seeds, and by division of the roots, but 
in this last method care must be taken not to mutilate them too 
much, or they will not grow healthy. 
ARTICLE IX. 
CULTURE OF THE NATURAL ORDER ERICEiE.—By T. K. S. 
These beautiful plants were separated into two orders by Jussieu, who 
distinguished Rhodoraceae, andEriceae by the mode in which the (“ap¬ 
sides or fruit burst, a character which is now but little esteemed. 
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