ARBORETUM NOTES. 45 
BPRICAC EZ. 
numerous, and quite tree-like in height and size, 
though I do not think that any of them have com- 
pecely the -form of trees. ‘Theys;are quite 
comparable to those of Killarney. 
The Arbutus grows in great beauty and 
luxuriance in the gardens at Bournemouth. 
(December, 1877.) One of our Arbutus bushes 
here—the one with flowers of the ordinary colour, 
(not the red flowered one), has now a good many 
beautiful fruit on it. 
RHODOREZ. 
Rhododendron ferrugineum. 
Loudon, v. 2, 1137. 
This and the Rhododendron hirsutum, which 
is extremely like it, were planted by my mother 
in the American garden in 1824 or 1825, and 
are still alive, though they have never appeared 
particularly vigorous or flourishing, at least they 
only hold their ground and do not spread. The 
hirsutum is the more thriving of the two. Both 
flower regularly every year, and tolerably well, 
though not so as to give any adequate idea of 
their beauty on the Alps. Both, I must observe, 
were planted in prepared soil, in heath soil brought 
from a distance. This species is much more 
generally spread over the Alps than the /ursutum, 
though the latter is very abundant in certain parts 
Arbutus 
Unedo 
Rhododen- 
dron 
ferrugineum 
