. 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. 544 EKIOBUTRYA KRIOSTKMON the under surface ruRty-tomentose: fr. a pear-shaped yellow pome (Fig. 775), with large seeds and an agree- able acid flavor. 5:H0r>. 12 Loquat 13 native to China and Japan, but is much planted in the Gulf states and westward. It blooms from Aug. until the approac
. 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. 544 EKIOBUTRYA KRIOSTKMON the under surface ruRty-tomentose: fr. a pear-shaped yellow pome (Fig. 775), with large seeds and an agree- able acid flavor. 5:H0r>. 12 Loquat 13 native to China and Japan, but is much planted in the Gulf states and westward. It blooms from Aug. until the approach of winter, and ripens its clustered fr. in very early spring. The fruit is often seen in northern markets. It is a profuse bearer in congenial Loquat is an excellent decorative plant, either as an evergreen lawn tree south of Charleston, or as a pot- plant in the North. Grown from seeds, it is a most satis- factory conservatory subject, resisting uncongenial con- ditions. L. H. B. ERIOCNfiMA. Consult Bertolonin. ERIOD^NDRON (Greek, woolly tree: alluding to the woolly tiber inside the fruit, called"ceibo" and "pochote" by the Mexicans, and used by them for stufling pillows). MalvdcexB. Ten species of tropical trees, thorny or not: Ivs. digitate; leaflets 3-7,entire: fls. solitary or clustered, large or medium-sized, rosy or whitish; petals oblong, pubescent or woolly; column of stamens with 5 branches at the top, each bearing 2-3 anthers. E. occidentile, G. Don, is cult, by Franceschi, Santa Barbara, Calif., as Ceiha occidentalis. ERIOGONXJM (Greek, woolly joints). Poh/gondcecB. About loo species, chiefly northwest American herbs, tufted subsbrubs; or slender annuals, mostly densely woolly: Ivs. crowded at the base of the stem, alternate, entire. U. comp6situ7n, Dough, perhaps the best known, has countless minute G-lobed neutral colored fls., dull white to rosy, borne in compound umbels 5-G in. deep and broad. The following have been advertised,
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