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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Eunomia

(from eu, well, and nomos, order; the leaves opposite, and seeds twin). ORD. Cruciferae. This genus contains a couple of species (both natives of the mountainous regions of Asia Minor) of very pretty little half-hardy evergreen sub-shrubs, admirably adapted for rockwork. Increased by cuttings, placed under a glass, in summer; or by seeds, sown in a similar situation, in spring.

E. oppositifolia (opposite-leaved). fl. white; racemes ten or twelve-flowered, terminal. June. l. opposite, almost orbicular, entire, smooth. Stem decumbent, branched. h. 6in. to 12in. 1827.

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