A dictionary of modern gardening - University Library

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hardy evergreen creepers. Division.
Sandy peat.
ERYNGIUM. Thirty-four species.
Chiefly hardy herbaceous. Division or
seed. Common soil.
ERYTHRyEA. Eleven species.
Chiefly hardy annuals. Seed or divi-
brick rubbish at least six inches thick ;
over that lay some small sticks, leaves,
or moss, to prevent the soil from getting
into the drainage, and in filling up,
raise the bed six inches above the level
of the surrounding soil— with a compost
consisting of rich turfy loam, leaf-
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sion accordingly, as they are annuals or
perennials. Loam
ERYTHRINA. Thirty-five species,
mould, and turfy peat, in the proportion
of two parts of the former to one of
each of thclatter ; to which sandstone
Chiefly
trees.
stove evergreen shrubs
Cuttings. Loam, peat,
and
and
or porous bricks, broken to the size of
large eggs, may be added to the extent
leaf-mould, in equal proportions of one-eighth of the whole mass. This
E. crista-gain. Coral Tree. Is one mixture will never become solid, on
of the most beautiful of this genus, and the contrary, it will always be permeils
cultivation in the open air is thus able to both air and moisture, without
detailed
Mr. W.
by
P. Ayres
that excellent
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gardener, any risk of becoming saturated with the
latter. The plants in the first season
"Cuttings of the young wood, taken may be planted eighteen inches apart;
off with a heel when about three inches but in the third year half of them may
long, and planted round the edge of a be taken out to form a new plantation,
large pot, or singly in small ones, in and in the fifth or sixth year each plant
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sandy peat, and plunged in a brisk when in flower will acquire an area [ of
bottom heat, will root in the course of sixteen or twenty square feet. When
a few weeks. This is suitable for those large specimens for immediate effect
puttings which are taken from plants in are desired, four or five may be placed
neat, but cuttings from the open air in juxtaposition.
will not bear such treatment. The " The best time to plant them out
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transition to a close warm frame ap- will be from the last | week in May to
pears too much for them, and they the middle of June, as the ground will
become paralyzed ; but if after being then be a little warm, and the plants
planted they are placed in a moderately will sustain no check.
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warm frame until the cuttings are cica- " Towards the end of October the
trized, and then removed to a brisk plants should be cut down, and the
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bottom heat, they will root with great crown of each covered with a box, or
freedom.
flower-pot, filled with dry leaves, the
"After the cuttings are rooted, they whole being spread over with dry peat,
must be repotted into rich light com- leaf-mould, or saw-dust, to the depth of
post, and encouraged to make robust , a foot, and then turfed over neatly,
growth. As it is indispensable that the The latter will be found advantageous,
plants should become strong before especially if the sides of the bed have a
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they are planted out, they must have at sharpish inclination, as it will throw ; off
least one season's cultivation in pots; much of the rain that would j otherwise
the flower-buds must also be removed soak into the mould, and impair its
as soon as they are perceptible, so that protecting properties
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the whole organizable matter may be
concentrated in the young plant
' In spring, when the covering is
removed, the surface of the bed should
' In the spring of the second season, be renewed to the depth of the roots
the ground may be prepared for the
reception of the plants, and as the i)reservation
in winter of the roots of all
tender plants depends as much upon
the dryness as upon the warmth of the
soil, it will be advisable to give them
an elevated but not an exposed situation
; and where the subsoil is not
porous, make it so artificially. Therefore,
where it is necessary, excavate
the natural soil to the depth of two
feet, and in the bottom place a layer of
with the above compost, the whole
being afterwards covered two inches
thick with sandy peat or leaf mould.
This covering should be continued until
the middle of June, or later if the
weather requires it. Water during the
growing season may be freely administered
in dry weather, and if liquic^
manure is occasionally given it will add'
to the strength of the plants; hut after
they are in bloom the less water that
falls on the bed the better it will be for