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growing herbaceous perennials. Tliey grow with erect stems, 

 and leaves comparatively large, and very compound, the 

 herbaceous kinds being smaller. All desirable as specimen 

 plants for the lawn or shrubbery. Common soil. Propagated 

 by cuttings of the matured stems, planted in sandy soil under 

 hand-glasses. There are some stove and greenhouse kinds. 

 Soil, loam and peat. Propagated by cuttings. A. crassifolia. 

 and A. edulis flower green, the young shoots eaten as a vege- 

 table. A, hispida, flowers white. A. Japonica, flowers green. 

 A. racemosa, hardy perennial, flowers white. A, spinosa, 

 flowers white, in September. A. trifoliata, flowers green. 



APtAUCAPiIA. [Coniferse.] . Noble evergreen trees, highly 

 ornamental in their aspect. A. imhricata, the Chili Pine, is 

 quite hardy, and a valuable addition to ornamental plantations. 

 A more beautiful kind, A. excelsa, the Norfolk Island Pine, 

 is tender, requiring protection. They grow to a large size 

 eventually. Good loamy soil. They may be propagated by 

 cuttings, but seedlings only make handsome vigorous plants. 

 Cookii, Bidwillu, Brasiliana, and glauca, are half hardy. 



ARBOR-VIT^. See Thuja. 



ARBUTUS. Strawberry Tree. [Ericaceae.] Beautiful 

 evergreen shrubs, with bell-shaped flowers, for the most part 

 hardy, but some requiring protection. The common species 

 thrive in loamy garden soil ; the greenhouse kinds should 

 have equal parts rich loam and peat. They are increased by 

 layering, and may be raised from seeds; the latter plan is 

 mostly adopted, as yielding the best plants. They thrive 

 amazingly in the soil prepared for American plants ; but they 

 will succeed in shrubberies in general, where the loam is at 

 all light and sandy. The rarer sorts may be budded, grafted, 

 or inarched on A. unedo. The fruit is strawberry-like and 

 very ornamental. A. andrachne and A. procera are hardy. 

 A. tomentosa, a greenhouse evergreen. A. unedo, hardy ever- 

 green shrub. These are all pretty, and the flowers are 

 bunches of pale hollow bells. 



ARCTOSTAPHYLOS. [Ericace®.] Dwarf shrubs, mostly 

 evergreens. Increased by layering. Soil, peat earth. A. 

 pungens, half-hardy shrub, flowers white. A. uva-ursi, flowers 

 flesh colour. 



ARCTOTIS. Bear's E.\R. [Compositse.] Greenhouse peren- 



