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These are not gardens that welcome ericaceous plants — acid-lovers like azaleas and other Rhododendron, or blueberries.

Throughout the book he employs rustic Anglo-Saxonisms like “scrump” and “hoick,” along with luscious Latinate words such as “ericaceous” and “quercophilic.”

Mr. Reis’s advice for gardeners is to keep watering their spring-flowering ericaceous shrubs, like rhododendrons, azaleas, mountain laurels and camellias, until the first frost arrives.

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.

The berry of several species of Vaccinium, and ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets.