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fruit, with double flowers, with scarlet flowers; there are also the 

 curled-leaved or cut-leaved, the broad-leaved, and the narrow -leaved. 



The second species much resembles the first, but the bark is not 

 rough; some of the leaves have no serratures, and the panicle is up- 

 right and viscid, which in that is smooth. It grows in its native 

 state to a middle-sized tree, with irregular branches. The leaves are 

 smooth, large, and somewhat like those of the Bay Tree, but not 

 quite so long: the flowers are like those of the Common Arbutus, 

 but growing thinly on the branches: the fruit oval, of the same co- 

 lour and consistence with the common sort; but the seeds of this are 

 flat, while in that they are pointed and angular. It grows naturally 

 in the East. 



]n the third species the branches trail upon the ground two or 

 three feet round the root or more. The leaves are alternate, bluntly 

 oval or oblong wedge-shaped, with a net-work of veins underneath, 

 and corresponding wrinkles above, firm and evergreen, like those of 

 Box : the flowers grow at the exlremities of the branches in small 

 clusters, each supported by a short red foot-stalk: they are of an 

 oval-conical figure, flesh-coloured, or white with a red mouth, and 

 divided into five obtuse reflex segments at the rim : the berries are 

 round with a depressed umbilicus, smooth and glossy, red when ripe, 

 and of the size of a holly- berry, replete with an austere mealy pulp, 

 in which are five cells containing five angular seeds. It is a shrub 

 very abundant in many parts or' the continent, as Sweden, &c. 



Culture. The most usual method of raising these beautiful ever- 

 greens is by sowing the seeds; but they are sometimes capable of 

 being raised by cuttings and layers. 



In the first of these methods with the first species, the seeds should 

 be collected when perfectly ripe in November, or the following 

 month, and preserved in dry sand till the period of sowing, which 

 may either be in December or the early spring season. The seed 

 should be sown in pots, and lightly covered with mould, then plunged 

 into an old tan hot-bed, and covered by glasses. In this mode the 

 plants will be up in April, when they should be often but sparingly 

 watered, and kept free from weeds. 



