. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. '59 Winter bud of Elodea. Nit size wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2-t, digitate, l-lJ/2 in, long; spilielets closely imbricate, 5-fld.—Int. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental plant. p. B. Ke
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches, and a synopsis of the vegetable kingdom. Gardening -- Dictionaries; Plants -- North America encyclopedias. '59 Winter bud of Elodea. Nit size wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2-t, digitate, l-lJ/2 in, long; spilielets closely imbricate, 5-fld.—Int. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental plant. p. B. Kennedy. ELEUTHER0C6CCUS (Greeli, eleuiheros, free, and kokk-ox, lierncl; tlie seeds are easily detached from the rtesh). AraliAcf(w. Ornamental hardy shrubs, with numerous erect, spiny stems, rather large, digitate Ivs., inconspicuous greenish fls., and black berries in umbels. They prefer a somewhat moist and rich soil, and are wtU adapted as single specimens on the lawn or in borders of shrubberies for the handsome bright green foil age. Prop, by seeds and root-cut tings. Three species in E. Asia with alternate, long-petioled, digi tate Ivs.: , greenish, polj g amous-dicecious, 5-merous, pedi celled, in terminal, peduncled uni bels: berry roundish oval, black, >ihining, 5-seeded. Bentiodsus, Maxim. Shrub, to I'l ft., the brandies densely covered with slender spines: Ifts. 5, rarely 3, oblong, usually narrowed at the base, acute, sharply and doubly ser rate, sparingly hispid above, with bristly hairs on the veins beneath, 4-6 in. long: fr. about % in. high. .luly. N. China. Gt. 12:.393. Alfred Rehdeb. ELIOT, JARED, author of the first American book on agriculture, was lnjru November 7. 1085. and died April 22, 17li::. He was the grandson of John Eliot, the "apos- tle o£ the ludiaus," and was pastor at Killingworth, Conn., from October 26, 1709, until his death. He was a botanist, and the leading consulting physician in New England. He introduced the mul
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