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POPULAR GARDEN BOTANY. 



and petals rose-colour. It requires light peat soil, and a 

 cool greenhouse or frame in winter. 



ARBUTUS. (Strawberry-tree.) 



Gen. Char. (Decandria Monogynia.) Calyx five-parted ; corolla 

 ovate, with a five-cleft orifice, pellucid at the base ; stamens se- 

 parate ; berry five-celled. 



The name of the genus is supposed to be from the Celtic, 

 from the roughness of the fruit. The beautiful Arbutus 

 Unedo, a native of the South of Europe, is well known in 

 our gardens, besides several others which are introduced; 

 a few require the shelter of the greenhouse, and are very 

 ornamental there. A. Canariensis has greenish- white flowers ; 

 densiflora and tomentosa } white flowers ; the latter are from 

 South America ; A. mollis is a native of Mexico, and is a 

 very fine evergreen species, flowering in the greenhouse in 

 June ; the leaves underneath are clothed with down of an 

 ashy or reddish tinge ; the panicle of flowers is particularly 

 beautiful ; the calyx small, the corolla large, bell-shaped, 

 and with a very contracted mouth, white or greenish rose- 

 colour ; the stamens curiously dilated, and very hairy ; it is 



