ARBORETUM NOTES. 63 
Bek BERIDEE 
as to the height to which this shrub grows, is 
quite mistaken. The plant in the Vicarage 
Grove is now between 5 and 6 feet high, 
and the shoots it has made in the last two 
years are surprisingly vigorous, some of the shoots 
thrown up from the base of the old stems grow to 
between 4 and 5 feet in the year. This seems to 
succeed best in what is called a heath soil,—that 
is, a mixture of peat or decayed leaves with sand, 
—a sandy peat, as it is sometimes called. At 
least, all the best plants I have seen of it have 
been in such a soil, and of our two plants, the one 
which flowers best is in the American garden, 
where the ground, when first laid out, was partly 
prepared for RKhododendrons. 
BERBERS) ARISTA. 
4. D. Hooker and Thomson, 
Flora Indica v. 1. 222. 
Two plants, one in arboretum, the other at 
south-west corner of pleasure-ground ; both raised 
from seeds brought by Henry* from the Himalaya 
fmeero5u. hey are quite hardy here, ‘grow 
vigorously, and form strong dense bushes above 
6 feet high similar in habit to Berberis vulgaris 
but altogether larger and more robust. There 
seems to have been much confusion and un- 
certainty among botanists as to Berberis aristata 
* His Brother, Colonel Bunbury. 
Berberis 
Darwinii 
Berberis 
aristata 
