Arbutus 565 
rarely 4 inch in diameter, globose, orange coloured, smooth, hard, glandular on the 
surface. 
Arbutus Andrachne is a small tree or large shrub, resembling 4. Unedo in 
habit, and like it occurring often in heaths and occasionally in the forests ; and only 
rarely forming small pure woods. It occurs in Albania, Greece, Cephalonia in the 
Ionian Islands, Crete, Rhodes, Cyprus, in the maritime regions of Asia Minor, Syria, 
and Palestine, in the Crimea and in the district of the Caucasus bordering upon the 
Black Sea. (A. H.) 
It was introduced into England from Smyrna in 1724, and cultivated at Eltham 
by Dr. Sherard. 
This tree though rarely planted in modern gardens? is, on account of its superior 
hardiness and its extremely beautiful bark, a more ornamental tree than the native 
species. Though I have never seen or heard of its producing ripe fruit in England, 
seedlings may be obtained from Continental nurseries, and some that I brought 
from Pallanza, in October 1906, have survived the journey without injury. The 
tree seems to enjoy lime in the soil. The bark is like smooth reddish-brown leather, 
covered with a thin silvery paper-like skin which peels off annually, and for this 
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alone it is well worth growing. There was a very fine though not tall tree of this 
species on the lawn at Williamstrip Park, Gloucestershire, on rather heavy soil, 
which endured the inclement season and severe winters of 1879-80-81 without 
much injury, but is now dead. I saw in 1903 another which was 36 feet high and 
4 feet in girth lying on the ground at Haldon near Exeter, which had been blown 
down some years before but was still living. The best that I know now living is 
in the Botanic Garden at Bath, and measures 27 feet by 6 feet 3 inches at 1 foot 
from the ground, shortly above which it divides into several stems. There is also 
a handsome tree about 25 feet high at Westonbirt, and one at Mamhead, 30 feet 
high, which is decaying at the butt. (H. J. E.) 
ARBUTUS MENZIESI, MaprofXa 
Arbutus Menziesii, Pursh, FZ Amer. Sept. i. 282 (1814); Sargent, Silva M. Amer. v. 123, t. 231 
(1893), and Zrees V. Amer. 728 (1905). 
Arbutus procera, Lindley, Bot. Reg. xxi. t. 1753 (1836); Loudon, Ard. e¢ Frut. Brit. ii, 1121 
1838). 
pee eo Hooker, 72 Bor. Amer. ii. 36 (1840). (Not Lindley.) 
A tree attaining in America 100 feet in height and 20 feet in girth, but usually 
much smaller. Bark of branches and young stems thin, smooth, reddish, peeling 
off in large thin scales; of older trunks dark reddish brown and covered with small 
thick scales. Young branchlets glabrous; older branchlets reddish brown, smooth. 
Buds stouter than in A. Unedo, } inch long; scales ovate, acute, apiculate. Leaves 
oval or oblong, larger than in A. Andrachne or A. Unedo, up to 5 inches long 
by 3 inches broad, rounded or contracted into minute sharp points at the apex, 
1 A tree in Kew Gardens, 20 feet high, is figured in Gard. Chron. iv. 724, f. 100 (1888). 
