. 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. 550 ESCHSCHOLZIA EUCALYPTUS fl. saucer-shaped, opening in sunshine, 2-3 in. across, yellow or orange or cream-colored : pod 3—t in. long, strong-ribbed : torus large and funnel-shape. Calif, and Ore., mostly along the coast. 2887. 14:1108. 1894, p. 381. —One of the most popular garden fls. It is
. 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. 550 ESCHSCHOLZIA EUCALYPTUS fl. saucer-shaped, opening in sunshine, 2-3 in. across, yellow or orange or cream-colored : pod 3—t in. long, strong-ribbed : torus large and funnel-shape. Calif, and Ore., mostly along the coast. 2887. 14:1108. 1894, p. 381. —One of the most popular garden fls. It is treated as a hardy annual. may be sown very early. It stands considerable cold, and blooms after the fiVst frosts. If well protected, plants of one season's growth will pass the winter and give some bloom the following spring. It sometimes self- sows. Very attractive as an edging, because of its in- teresting bluish foliage. There are double-fld. forms. Very variable, and cult, under a variety of names, as C. maritima, Hort. (not Greene), G. vdria, Hort. (trade name for mixed varieties), C. aurantlaca, Hort.,' and C. alba, Hort. The so-called white varieties are not yet pure white. Do not bear transplanting well. Var. crdcea, Hort. (JS. crdcea, Benth.). Fls. deep orange: torus very widely expanded: calyx bud long- attenuate. 20:1077. 3495. Var. Dotiglasil, Gray {E. Douijlasii, Benth.). Rather more slender, and blooms earlier: fls. pure yellow. tenuiJdlia, Hook. Lower, with finer-cut and denser foliage, the long divisions being almost capillary: fls. small (1 in. across), light yellow, overtopping the Ivs.: tor\is less prominent. Calif. 4812. £,_ jj_ g_ ESTEAGON, Artemisia Dracuncuhis. EUCALYPTUS (Greek, eu, well; kahjpto, to cover as with a lid : the calyx limb covering the flower before anthesis, then falling off in the form of a lid or cover). Myrtdce<e. GuM Tkee. Mostly trees, frequently of im- mense size; a few of the alpine and sub-alpine sp
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