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in the most favorable terms. He announced tliat layered plants, propagated from 

 his bearing specimen, would be obtainable tlie following year from a nurseryman 

 at Lyons. 



Coming from sueh an autliority as Dr. Andre, tliis article created a consid- 

 erable demand for jjlants, and a number of tliem were disseminated during the 

 following year, the majority being planted on the Riviera, but not a few going to 

 Italy and Spain, and some to conservatories in more northern countries, where 

 it was thouglit tlie climate was too severe to permit of tlieir being grown in the 

 open. The next three or four years saw a considerable number of Feijoas ])lanted 

 along the Mediterranean, and tlie cultivation of the plant fairly established. 



As far as is definitely known. Dr. Andre was tlie first to introduce tlie Feijoa 

 into Europe; certain it is that he was the first to realize its horticultural possi- 

 bilities and to give attention to it from this standpoint. It is possible, however, 

 tliat an introduction antedating tliat of Andre by several years may have been made 

 in Switzerland. A plant is growing in the Botanic Garden at Basle which is be- 

 lieved to be twent\-five years old. Definite date in regard to the introduction of 

 this plant is lacking, but j)revious to its cultivation in the Botanic Garden it was 

 cultivated by M. de Wette, and there seems no reason to doubt that it is as old as 

 it is claimed to be. Andre introduced the j)lant twenty-two years ago. As far as 

 is known, he did not bring from Soutii Anuriea any other specimen or specimens 

 than the one planted in his own garden, and there is no record of any plants 

 having been pro])agated from this until 1898 — fourteen years ago. This makes it 

 almost certain that the plant at Basle was a separate introduction, and while 

 there is no actual jjroof that it was introduced previous to Andre's plant, there is a 

 considerable possibility that it was. 



In 1899 Besson freres, well known nurserymen at Nice, decided to propagate 

 the Feijoa extensively and made an importation of seed direct from Montevideo, 

 Uruguay, from wliich several thousand plants were raised. These were dissemi- 

 nated almost as widely as those from Andre's plant. The particular interest of 

 this importation lies in the fact that the plants turned out to be of an entirely dis- 

 tinct type from the Andre bush. 



One or two other small importations of seed from South America were made 

 by French nurserymen, but no large number of plants were raised, and they were 

 not widely disseminated, so that practically all of the Feijoas in both Europe and 

 North America can be said to have originated from either Andre's introduction 

 or the importation of seed by Besson freres. 



In 1901 Dr. F. Franceschi of Santa Barbara, California, obtained a number 

 of seedlings from Andre's original plant through M. Naudin of Antibes, France. 

 These plants were disseminated at once, and were set out in several different loca- 

 tions in Southern California, notably Orange, Redlands, and Altadena, as well 

 as those planted at Santa Barbara by Dr. Franceschi himself. Two years later, 

 in 1903, Dr. Franceschi obtained from F. Morel of Lyons, who was authorized by 

 Andre to sell layered plants from the parent bush, a number of these layered 

 plants, of which the majority were sent to Florida, although one or two were 

 planted in Santa Barbara. 



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