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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Eysenhardtia

(named in honour of C. W. Eysenhardt, M.D., and professor in the University of Konigsberg, in Prussia). ORD. Leguminosae. A genus containing a couple of species of half-hardy, evergreen shrubs, natives of Mexico and Texas. They thrive in a compost of loam and peat. Young cuttings will root in sandy soil, if inserted under a bell glass.

E. amorphoides (Amorpha-like). fl. pale yellow; racemes terminal, cylindrical. June. l. imparipinnate; leaflets numerous, stipellate, glandular h. 4ft. to 6ft. Mexico, 1838.

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