. 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. Gardening. 528 ELEUSIXE wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2-4, digitate, 1-1J^ in. long; spilselets closely imbricate, 5-fld.âInt. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental Plaot. p. B. Kesxedt. ELEUTHEROCOCCUS (Greek, eleutheros. free, and , kiincl; tin.' seeds are easily detached from the tli-sU
. 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. Gardening. 528 ELEUSIXE wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2-4, digitate, 1-1J^ in. long; spilselets closely imbricate, 5-fld.âInt. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental Plaot. p. B. Kesxedt. ELEUTHEROCOCCUS (Greek, eleutheros. free, and , kiincl; tin.' seeds are easily detached from the tli-sU). ^1 (â ((/(.!<â «('. Ornamental hardy shrub's,-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 well adapted as single specimens on the lawn or in borders of shrubberies for the handsome bright green foli- age. Prop, by seeds and root-cut- tings. Three species in E. Asia, with alternate, long-petioled, digi- tate Ivs.: , greenish, polyg- amous-dioecious, 5-merous, pedi- celled, in terminal, peduncled um- bels: berry roundish oval, black, shining, 5-seeded. sentiodBUS, Maxim. Shrub, to 15 ft., the branches 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. July. N. China. Gt. 12:393. Alfred Rehder. ELIOT, JABED, author of the iirst American book on agriculture, was born November 7, 1C85, and died April 22, 1763. He was the grandson of John Eliot, the "apos- tle of the Indians," 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 mulberry tree into Con- necticut, wrote an essay upon the silkworm, and dis- covered a process of extracting
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