The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Elliottia

(named in honour of Stephen Elliot, an American botanist, who died in 1830). SYN. Tripetaleia. ORD. Ericaceae. A genus of three species of very pretty half-hardy evergreen shrubs, two of which are Japanese (these are probably not at present in cultivation), and the third North American. The one mentioned below does well in a warm situation, in a peaty soil. Propagated by cuttings.

E. racemosa (racemose). fl. white, in conspicuous terminal racemes or panicles, resembling those of Andromeda. August. l. alternate, entire. h. 4ft. to 10ft. Georgia.

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