8o ARCTOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI. BEAR-BERRY. 



The Bear- Berry has the reputation of being opposed to 

 garden culture ; but, borrowing a hint from Nature along the 

 lakes, a frame to hold sand was placed around the plant and 

 filled up till only the branch points were left above. Since 

 then it is one of the most luxuriant plants in the writer's garden. 

 To increase the plants, the young stems are drawn up through 

 the hole in the bottom of a flower-pot, the pot filled and sunk 

 in the sand, and suffered to remain without further care for a 

 year or so, when they are separated from-'the parent and helped 

 to set up for themselves in sand-boxes in the garden. 



Mr. E. Hall reports that the plant is very abundant in the 

 coast ranges of hills in Oregon, and is generally diffused through 

 the State. In the Rocky Mountains it is also very abundant, 

 but, according to the writer's own observations, chiefly along 

 the hillsides, where a considerable quantity of disintegrated rock 

 had accumulated. 



The fondness of the birds for the berries has, no doubt, aided 

 its distribution, for it is found in tolerable abundance in almost 

 all northern countries, in the language of the " Botany of the 

 Californian Geological Survey," " extending round the world." 

 Though abundant in Oregon, it hardly reaches California, how- 

 ever, where other species replace it. 



The flowers, in some European works, are represented as of 

 a rosy pink, but all that we have seen in our country have 

 simply a rosy mouth to the white, waxy corolla, thus really 

 giving it greater beauty than if it were of one uniform tint. 

 Thoucjh there are several flowers in one cluster, we have never 

 seen more than one berry mature. Why the remainder are 

 barren is not quite clear. Our drawing was made from a 

 Michigan specimen, in flower on the 26th of April, showing 

 how early it comes into bloom. 



