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| Earthing-up | Raising the level of earth around a plant and mounding it up ie: potatoes and celery. |
| Edging iron | A half-moon shaped tool for cutting lawn edges. |
| Emasculation | The male sexual parts of the flower are removed to prevent self-pollination whilst breeding. |
| Epiphyte(epiphytic) | A plant that grows on another but does not take any nourishment from it. |
| Ericaceous | These plants love acid soil and they need a different fertilizer. |
| Escape | A plant that has grown in a garden and 'escaped' to the wild. |
| Espalier | A tree with a vertical trunk whose branches are horizontal in tiers. |
| Etiolation | The stem becomes white(drawn) because of lack of light. |
| Evergreen | This plant only looses a very few leaves in autumn, it keeps the majority of its leaves through the winter. |
| Everlasting flowers | Flowers that are dried but keep their colour. |
| Eye | Growth bud, potaoes have them.. |