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CONVERSATION THE TENTH. 



CLASS 10. DECAN'DRIA. STRAWBERRY-TREE. SAXI- 

 FRAGE. PINK. CARNATION. AGROSTEM'MA GI- 



THA'GO, CORN-COCKLE, EXAMINED. WOOD-SORREL. 

 LIG'NUM-VI'T./E TREE. LOGWOOD. BRAZIL- 

 WOOD. LOCUST-TREE. MAHOGANY-TREE. 



MOTHER. 



THE common strawberry-tree, Arbutus une'do, 

 is one of the native plants most remarkable for 

 beauty, amongst those of the class Decandria. 

 It belongs to the order Monogynia, and grows wild 

 in Ireland, Italy, and Spain. It flowers in No- 

 vember or December, but the fruit does not ripen 

 till the following winter ; and it is singular to see 

 a tree in the open ground, at that season, covered 

 with both flowers and fruit ; for, when the fruit is 

 ripe, and still remaining on the tree, the flowers of 

 the succeeding crop are in full bloom. 



Plants which flower the earliest in this country, 

 do not always ripen their fruit the soonest : the 



