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habitation ; and an avenue, as an object EREMURUS spectabilis. Hardy her-
in a view, gives to a house, otherwise baceous. Division. Common soil,
inconsiderable, the air of a mansion. ERIA. Twelve species. Stove
Buildings which answer one another at epiphytes. Division. Peat and potthe
entrance of an approach, or on the sherds.
bides of an opening, have a similar ERICA, Heath. Four hundred and
effect ; they distinguish at once the ninety-five species, besides very many
precincts of a seat from the rest of the varieties. Most of them green-house,
country. Some pieces of sculpture, but a large number are hardy, and are all
also, such as vases and termini, may evergreen. Cuttings or layers. Sandy
perhaps now and then be used to extend peat. See Heath.
the appearance of a garden beyond its ERIGERON. Forty species. Hardy
limits, and to raise the mead in which herbaceous and annuals. Division or
they are placed above the ordinary im- seed. Common soil,
provements of cultivated nature. At! ERINUS. Five species. Green-
other times they may be applied as house evergreens, and hardy herbace-
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ornaments to the most polished lawns ; ous. Division or seed. Sandy loam,
the traditional ideas we have conceived ERIOBOTRYA.
ofArcadian scenes correspond with such hardy
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Two species. Half-
evergreen trees. Cuttings, seed,
decorations; and sometimes a solitary and grafting on the white-thorn. Leaf
urn, inscribed to the memory of a per- and peat mould.
son now no more, but who once fre- ERIOCEPHALUS. Five species,
quented the shades where it stands, is Green-house evergreen shrubs. Cut-
an object equally elegant and interest- I tings. Sandy loam and peat,
ing. ERIOCOMA. Two species. Half-
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" The occasions, however, on which hardy evergreen shrubs.
we may with any propriety trespass Common soil.
beyond'the limits of cultivated nature, ERIODENDRON. Four
Cuttings,
species,
are very rare ; the force of the charac- Stove evergreen shrubs. Seed. Rich
tercan alone excuse the artifice avowed loam and sandy peat,
in expressing it." Whateley. ERIOGONUM. Five species. Hardy
EPACRIS. Eighteen species. Green- [herbaceous. Seed. Loam and peat,
house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.— ERIOL.T.NA. Two species. Green-
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Sandv peat. house evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.
EPIDENDRUM. Sixty-eight species. Sandy peat.
Stove epiphytes. Offsets. Peat and' ERIOPHYLLUM. Two species,
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potsherds
H'U'dv. Division. Common soil.
EPIg"(EA. Two species. Hardy' ERIOSOMA. A genus of insects
evergreen trailers. Layers. Sandv peat
nearly synonymous with ApMs.
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and loam
-^^ ^I'saria. Poplar Louse.
E P I L B I U M. Seventeen species. ^- lanigera. See American Blight.
Hardy herbaceous. Seed or division. ERIOSPERNUM. Eight species.
Common Green-house bulbs. Suckers. Sandy
soil.
EPIMEDIUM. Five species. Hardy P^-it.
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herbaceous. Division. Sandy peat. ERIOSTEMON. Ten species. Green-
„r.T„ , „rT,io rru house TLi evergreen shrubs. Cuttings.
1 EPIPACTIS. Three species. Hardy = °
Sandy peat and loam.
orchids. Division. Sandy peat and
ERISMA floribunda. Stove ever-
loam.
green shrub. Cuttings. Peat and
EPIPHYLLUM. Eleven species.
loam.
Stove evergreen cactacea;. Cuttings.
ERITHALIS. Two species. Stove
Sandy loam.
evergreen trees. Cuttings. Rich loam
EPIPHYTES grow upon other plants,
and peat.
but, unlike parasites, do not extract
ERNODEA montana. Half-hardy
from them nourishment.
evergreen trailer. Division. Gravelly
ERANTHEMUM. Eleven species. soil.
Stove and green-house evergreen ERODIUM. Twenty-seven species,
shrubs. Cuttings. Sandy peat.
Chiefly hardy herbaceous. Division.
ERANTHIS. Two species. Hardy Common soil.
tubers. Offsets. Sandy loam.
ERPETION. Two species. HalP-
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