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and that its wood is employed for making tools for the weaver, and spindles 
for the women. Pliny says that the Adrachne resembles the Unedo ; and 
Adrachla is the vulgar name for this species of 4’rbutus throughout Greece, 
at the present day, as indicated in the synonymes above. This species was 
first brought to England from Smyrna in 1724, and cultivated at Eltham by 
Dr. Sherard; many years afterwards, it was sent from London to Paris; and 
it is now frequent in the gardens in the neighbourhood of both capitals: in 
the environs of London, as a shrub or low tree in the open ground; and about 
Paris, as a conservatory plant for training against a wall, and protecting in 
winter. In Smith’s Correspondence of Linneus, it is stated that the d’rbutus 
Andrachne flowered for the first time in Europe in Dr. Fothergill’s garden 
at Ham House, in Essex, in May, 1766. The plant there was raised from 
seed sent to Dr. Fothergill from Dr. Russell of Aleppo, in 1756, After 
Dr. Fothergill’s death, the plant was sold by auction,in August, 1781, for 
53/. 11s. It was purchased by a nurseryman for the purpose of being cut up 
into scions for grafting on the common 4’rbutus. It is also stated that a tree 
fully twice as large as that at Ham House, which was long the boast of the 
Chelsea Botanic Garden, was killed by the cold winter of 1796. 
Properties and Uses. In countries where it is indigenous, the fruit is eaten, 
and the wood used for fuel and other useful purposes. The tree was so 
abundant in the neighbourhood of Aleppo, that, in Russell’s time, it supplied 
nearly half the fuel in the city. In Britain, it is only to be considered in the 
light of an ornamental tree; and there are few evergreens which can be com- 
pared with it for the beauty and varied disposition of its foliage, and the sin- 
gularity of the bark of its,trunk, which annually presents a new and smooth 
surface to the eye. 
Soil, Situation, §c, A free sandy loam, kept rather moist, seems to suit 
this tree where the climate is favourable to it: for example, in the neighbour- 
hood of London; but farther north, a dry soil will be found preferable, in order 
that the plant may not be stimulated to make more wood than it can thoroughly 
ripen. The situation should always be sheltered, though not shaded by other 
trees. In a gardenesque arrangement of trees, the particular beauty of the 
trunk and branches of the andrachne will be best observed; but, if planted in 
picturesque masses in a shrubbery, its forms and foliage will harmonise very 
well with those of other species of A'rbutus, and of the larger Ericacee. 
Statistics. In the environs of London there are plants of d’rbutus Andrachne, as standards, 
from 8 ft. to 10 ft. high: one in the Hackney ‘arboretum, 12 ft. high; and one in the Chelsea 
Botanic Garden 12 ft. high: there are also plants at White Knights, 13 ft. high, with heads 15 ft. in 
diameter. There isa tree of this species in the Edinburgh New Botanic Garden, which was re- 
moved thither from the old one in 1822, when it was 13 ft. in height, with a stem 103in. in diameter, 
at 1ft. from the ground. We have received notices of several other large specimens; but, as A. 
hybrida resembles A. Andrachne in general appearance, and in the circumstance of casting its bark, 
we believe that species to have been frequently mistaken for the Oriental one in some of the accounts 
that have been sent us, from the rapid growth attributed to the trees. Price of plants, in the London 
nurseries, is from 3s. 6d. to 5s. each. 
a 4, A. pRocE‘RA Douglas. The tall Arbutus, or Strawberry Tree. 
Identification. Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1573. 
Engraving. Bot. Reg., t. 1573. 
“Spec. Char., Sc. A robust shrub, or rather tree, a native of the mountainous 
woody parts of the north-west coast of North America, sent by Mr. Douglas 
to the London Horticultural Society, in 1827, It bears a general resem- 
blance to A. Andrachne, but differs from it altogether in the form and 
serratures of its leaves, and in the form and size of its flowers, the corollas 
of which are of a delicate greenish white. Till the plant is 3 or 4 years 
old, it requires protection during winter; and it will probably be found ad- 
visable, in most situations north of London, to train it to a wall. There is 
a plant against the wall, in the Garden of the Horticultural Society, which 
has stood there since 1830, and has grown as high as the wall. In the 
Fulham Nursery, this species appears to grow with greater rapidity than 
any other of the genus. It is propagated by grafting on the common spe- 
cies; and plants are 7s. 6d. each. 
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