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a valuable addition to the smaller fruits ; while with us its 

 excellence appears so great that it will well repay cultivation 

 either in the vinery, the greenhouse, or perhaps the cold grap- 

 ery. That our readers may see how highly it is appreciated 



in England we copy 

 the following account 

 of it, with an engrav- 

 ing (fiS- 6) represent- 

 ing its habit, from the 

 Gard. Chronicle : — 



" Eugenia Ugni, of 

 which we subjoin a 

 sketch, is apparently 

 as hardy as a myrtle, 

 and considering its 

 great value as a fruit- 

 bearing bush, deserves 

 special mention. What 

 experience has been 

 gained about it a- 

 mounts to this, that 

 it was unhurt against 

 a northwest wall, at 

 Exeter, by the winter 

 frost, though injured 

 by the sudden fall of 

 temperature in April ; 

 we also know that it 

 is nearly allied to the 

 common myrtle, and 

 that it is found wild 

 on the hills near Valparaiso, as well as in Chiloe. Were it 

 merely as an ornamental bush we should have passed it by 

 without special notice, although its graceful habit, fine ever- 

 green leaves, and numerous delicate blush flowers, render it 

 no mean decoration of a garden. But it is the fruit of the 



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EUGENIA UGNI. 



