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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, November 1 , 1859. 
Echasseey (Bezi d'Echassery; Bezi de Landry; 
Muscat de Villandry; Viandry ,- Verte Longue d’Hiver). 
Fruit produced in clusters; medium sized, roundish- 
oval. Skin clear yellow, covered with numerous dots 
and patches of greyish-brown russet. Eye small and 
open, set in a shallow basin. Stalk an inch and a half 
long, inserted in a small knobbed cavity. Flesh white, 
buttery and melting, sugary, and with a musky flavour. 
In use from November till Christmas. 
Elisa d’Heyst.— Fruit above medium size, or large 
irregular-oval, widest in the middle and tapering towards 
the eye and the stalk. Skin smooth and shining, yel¬ 
lowish-green, clouded with russet about the stalk, and 
covered ivith russet dots. Eye closed, set in a deep, 
irregular basin. Stalk half an inch long, stout, and in¬ 
serted without depression. Flesh melting, juicy, sugary, 
and. richly flavoured. Ripe in February and March. 
Filanrioch. See Hampden s Bergamot. 
Elton.— Fruit medium sized, oval. Skin greenish, 
almost entirely covered with thin grey russet, and marked 
with patches of coarser russet, with a tinge of orange on 
the part exposed to the sun. Eye small, very slightly 
depressed. Stalk stout, inserted in a deep cavity. Flesh 
firm, crisp, juicy, rich, and excellent. It is frequently 
without a core and pips, the flesh being solid throughout. 
Ripe in September, but does not keep long. 
Emerald.— Fruit medium sized, obovate, rather un¬ 
even in its outline. Skin pale green, with pale brownish- 
red next the sun, and covered with russety dots. Eye 
open, set in a small irregular basin. Stalk an inch and a 
half long, obliquely inserted in a small cavity. Flesh 
buttery, melting, and richly flavoured. Ripe in Novem¬ 
ber and December. 
Emile d’Heyst. —Fruit above medium size, pyramidal. 
Skin bright yellow when ripe, marked with patches and 
veins of ciunamon-coloured russet. Eye small, set in a 
narrow and rather deep basin. Stalk about an inch long, 
set in a narrow uneven cavity. Flesh tender, buttery, 
and melting, very juicy,-sugary, and perfumed. No¬ 
vember. 
English Bergamot. See Autumn Id erg am ot. 
English Caillot Rosat. See Caillot Eosat. 
Epargne. See Jargonelle. 
Eparonanais. See JDuchesse d’Angouleme. 
Epine Dumas. See Lelle Epine du Mas. 
Epine d’Ete. See Summer Thorn. 
Epine d’Ete Couleur de Rose. See Summer Thorn. 
Epine d’Ete Yert. See Summer Thorn. 
Epine d’Uiver. See Winter Thorn. 
Epine de Rochechouart. See Belle Epine du Mas. 
Epine Rose. See Summer Bose. 
Epine Rose d’Hiver. See Winter Thorn. 
Etourneau. See Winter Nelis. 
Excellentissime. See Fondante d’Automne. 
Eyewood. — Fruit below medium size, Bergamot¬ 
shaped. Skin greenish-yellow, very much covered with 
pale brown russet, and large russet dots. Eye small and 
open, slightly depressed. Stalk above an inch long, 
slender, inserted in a small cavity. Flesh yellowish, 
exceedingly tender and melting, very juicy, with a 
sprightly vinous fiaiour, and a fine aroma. 
A very excellent pear, ripe in October. The tree is 
very hardy, and a good bearer. 
(To be continued.) 
NEW AND RARE PLANTS. 
Eichardia albo-maculata ( White-spotted-leaved Mchardia). 
Native of Natal j imported by Messrs. Backhouse, of York, 
flowering in the greenhouse in June. Flowers white.—(Lot. 
Mag., t. 5110.) 
Evelyna Caravata (Juliet's Evelyna). 
Ihis Orchid has also been called Serapias Caravata , Cym- 
bidium Mrsutum , Sobralia Caravata , and Evelyna lepida. Native 
of French Guiana. Flowers yellow, with purple bracts, appear 
in November.— (Ibid. t. 5141.) 
Pentstemon centeanthifolius (Red- Valerian-leaved Rents- 
temon). 
It has been called Chelone centranthifolia. Native of New 
California, whence it was sent by Douglas. Blooms in July. 
Flowers scarlet. Hardy, ornamental, “ and deserves to be more 
cultivated.”— (Ibid. t. 5142.) 
SrEAGUEA ijmbellata (Umbellate Spragueci). 
Native of California. Sent to Messrs. Yeitch of the Exeter 
and Chelsea Nurseries, by Mr. W. Lobb. “ A very elegant 
dwarf-ilowering species, of novel character, well adapted to rock- 
work and flower-border margins, having proved quite hardy in 
Messrs. Yeitch’s nursery.” Spikes crest-like, formed of two 
rows of closely imbricated flowers, white tinged with purple. 
Flowers in July.— (Ibid. t. 5143.) 
LjElia xanthina (Yellow-Jlotvcred Lcelia). 
A Brazilian Orchid, imported by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, 
of the York Nursery.— (Ibid, t . 5144.) 
Momordica mixta (larye-floivered Momordiea). 
It has also been called M. Cochin- Chincnsis and Muricia Cochin- 
Chinensis. It is a native of the country thus indicated, as well as 
of China, Moulmcin, and other parts of India Flowers straw- 
coloured, purple at the base, open in July.— (Ibid. t. 5115.) 
LARGE HYDRANGEAS IN SMALL POTS. 
Having read in The Cottage Gardener, for July 25th, 
page 248, an answer to my inquiry as to what time and how 
those favourite plants were obtained about the south with 
such large heads of bloom in small pots. Your answer was, 
that they have strong old plants to get cuttings from and 
in the month of September, or later or earlier, when they can 
feel the top of a shoot set for bloom another year, they in¬ 
stantly cut it off with three joints, put it in a 60-sizecl pot, 
plunge it in a warm bed without forcing the flower-bud any 
further; early in spring they shift into the largest size pot, and 
humour the plant so as to enable it to flower as though it had 
not been cut off. This answer I will not dispute. But again 
you say that any plants struck in the spring will make a bed next 
summer; hut ten thousand of them would not furnish one bloom 
such as I want. Oh, what a disappointment that would be after 
all my care and trouble in nursing them on! But let us pause 
for awhile, and wonder if such really would be the case. How 
are successions of flowering plants to be obtained, or, in fact, 
anything connected with the gardening world but from frequent 
sowing, propagating, and stopping? The same with the Hy¬ 
drangea. 11 you desire early bloom you must propagate early; 
and if a succession is to be obtained you must propagate accord¬ 
ingly ; and with judgment you wiil meet with success. Now I 
am not in possession of ten thousand plants of the one in question; 
hut I have one hundred, and nearly all well set for bloom, strong, 
healthy, and hardy ; so that, instead of my spring-struck cuttings 
not flowering, as you say, until summer, they will towards 
December, and with later-struck cuttings form a fine succession, 
probably when other flowering plants are scarce. 
Permit me to state, for the benefit of others, how I have suc¬ 
ceeded hi obtaining the plants which I mention. In the month 
of March I had six old plants which had taken their rest during 
winter. I started them in a gentle heat; and when the cuttings 
could be had one or two inches long, I immediately cut them off, 
put them in cutting-pots, plunge them in a common Cucumber- 
iramc in a good bottom heat; when rooted pot them off in a 
sandy fibrous loam, place them in a moist heat, and when the 
pots are filled with roots give them a shift into three-inch pots ; 
still grow them on until the month of August, when I remove 
them to a cooler house, and give them frequent manure watering 
until the month of October, when I gradually withhold it, and 
expose them freely to abundance of air ; and the result is what I 
have before stated—that is, I have a fine stock of dwarf, strong, 
and healthy plants, admired by everyone who sees them. 
I have also young plants to succeed from cuttings put in in 
the month of September, which will remain in three-inch pots 
until February, and then be transferred to 48-size pots. I think 
they deserve cultivating more extensively, for they are quite the 
ladies’ favourite; and I have no doubt but these few simple 
