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ripe, as it is a whole year growing to perfection. As the leaves of 

 the Andrachne are larger than in the other sorts, they have always 

 a better elTcct as evergreens. 



When there is plenty, both of fruit and flowers upon the trees, 

 they certainly make a very gay and beautiful appearance, as most 

 of the other plants are past their beauty at this time. The trees 

 which have large oval fruit make the greatest figure ; the flowers 

 of this being larger and oblong. The variety with double flowers 

 is a curiosity, but their flowers having only two rows of petals make 

 no very great appearance, neither do the trees produce any great 

 quantity of fruit ; the other is therefore preferable. That with red 

 flowers makes a pretty variety, especially when intermixed with 

 the other, for tlie outsides of shrubberies, as they are of a scarlet 

 bright red color at their first appearance, and afterwards change to 

 purple before they fall oflT. The fruit in this is the .same as the 

 common sort. 



They delight in a generous but not too moist soil, as when planted 

 in dry ground they seldom produce much fruit ; the flowers coming 

 forth in autumn, when the winter proves severe they are generally 

 destroyed, consequently, to obtain good fruit, they should be placed 

 in warm situations, and where the ground is not naturally moist ; a 

 good quantity of loam should be placed about their roots, and in dry 

 springs they should be freely watered. 



