. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ECH 208 END ECHINOPS. Sixteen species. Hardy herbaceous. Division. Common soil. ECHITES. Twenty-one species. Chiefly stove evergreen twiners. Cut- ings. Loam and peat. ECHIUM. Fifty-eight species. Hardy and green-house shrubs and an- nuals. Layers and cuttings, or seeds. Loam and peat. EDGING. This for the kitchen-garden and all other places where neatness, not ornament, is the object, may consist of useful herbs, the strawberry &c. As an ornamental edging nothing can compare with the dwarf Box, especially in light soils. On heavy low lands it
. A dictionary of modern gardening. Gardening. ECH 208 END ECHINOPS. Sixteen species. Hardy herbaceous. Division. Common soil. ECHITES. Twenty-one species. Chiefly stove evergreen twiners. Cut- ings. Loam and peat. ECHIUM. Fifty-eight species. Hardy and green-house shrubs and an- nuals. Layers and cuttings, or seeds. Loam and peat. EDGING. This for the kitchen-garden and all other places where neatness, not ornament, is the object, may consist of useful herbs, the strawberry &c. As an ornamental edging nothing can compare with the dwarf Box, especially in light soils. On heavy low lands it suffers during winter and may, perhaps, be totally destroyed; in such situations grass may be used, though it is trouble- some to keep in order. Fig. EDGING KNIFE. This too], fitted to a straight handle, is used for paring ; the edges of grass bordering walkB, I &c, and cutting the outlines of sods, which may be then readily raised by the spade.—Rural Reg. EDWARDSIA. Six species. Half- hardy shurbs. Cuttings. Sandy peat. EGG-BEARER. Solanum origenum. EGG-SHELLS. See Animal Matters. EGLANTINE. See Sweet Briar. EGYPTIAN LOTUS. Nymphcea lotus. EGYPTIAN THORN. Acacia vera. EHRETIA. Eleven species. Stove evergreen shrubs and trees. Cuttings. Loam and peat. EKEBERGIA capensis. Green- house evergreen tree. Cuttings. Loam and peat. ELiEAGNUS. Seven species. Hardy or green-house trees and shrubs, except E. latifolia, which is a stove shrub. Layers or cuttings. Light soil. ELAIS. Four species. Stove palms. Suckers. Rich sandy loam. EL^OCARPUS. Five species. Stove or green-house trees or shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and peat. ELiEODENDRON. Five species. Green-house and stove evergreen shrubs. Cuttings. Loam and peat. ELAPHRIUM glabrum. Stove ever- green tree. Cuttings. Peat and loam. ELATE sylvestris. A stove palm. Suckers. Rich loam. ELATER. See Wire-worm. ELDER (Sambucus). Common black elder (S. nigra), of which there are several varieties, viz., black-berried, white-berried, gree
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