. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 528 ELEUSINE wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2—4, digitate, 1-1>2 in. long; spikelets closely imbricate, 5-fld.—Int. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental Pla°*- P. B. Kennedy. ELEUTHEEOCOCCUS (Greek, eleulheros, free, and kokkos, kernel; the
. 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; Horticulture; Horticulture; Horticulture. 528 ELEUSINE wide, obtuse at the apex: spikes broad, 2—4, digitate, 1-1>2 in. long; spikelets closely imbricate, 5-fld.—Int. into Amer. on ballast, and in cult, as an ornamental Pla°*- P. B. Kennedy. ELEUTHEEOCOCCUS (Greek, eleulheros, free, and kokkos, kernel; the seeds are easily detached from the flesh). Arahdcew Ornamental hardj shrub with numerous erect, spmy stems rather large, digitate Ivs inconspicuous greenish fls., and black berries in umbels. They prefer a somewh t moist and rich soil and are w II adapted as single specimens en tli lawn or in borders of shrubberies for the handsome bright green foil age. Prop, by seeds and ro )t cut tings. Three species in E \sia with alternate, long petiol d digi tate Ivs.: greenish nhf, amous-dloscious, 5 merous pedi celled, in terminal pedum led um bels: berry roundish ovd blatk Mhining, 5-seeded Benticdsus, Maxim Shrub to It ft., the branches densely covered with slender spines Ifts 5 rarely 3, oblong, usually narrowed at the base, acute, sharply and doubly ser- rate, sparingly hispid above, with bristly hairs on the veins beneath, 4-6 in. long: fr. about H in. high. July. N. China. Gt. 12=^^3. Alfred Rehdee. ELIOT, JABED, author of the first American book on agriculture, was born November 7. 1685, and died April 22,1763. He was the grandson of John Eliot, the "apos- tle of the Indians," and was pastor at Killingworth, Conn., from October 26,1709, until his death. He was a botanist, and the leading consulting physician in New England. He introduced the mulberry tree into Con- necticut, wrote an essay upon the silkworm, and dis- covered a process of extracting iron f
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