60 On the Cultivation of the Madeira Vaccinium. 



Should this plant, from the account I have given of it, 

 appear to you deserving of more general cultivation, you 

 will do me the honour of laying this communication before 

 the Horticultural Society-. 



I am, Sir, 

 your very humble Servant, 

 Ham, William Foulk. 



November 21, 1824. 



Note by the Secretary. 



The Vaccinium above mentioned is generally known in the 

 gardens and nurseries of England as V. Arctostaphylos ; it 

 appears, however, by the investigation of Sir James Smith in 

 Rees's Encyclopedia, that that specific name properly belongs 

 to the plant found by Tournefort, on the coasts of the 

 Black Sea, and described as well as figured by him in his 

 Voyage,* but it does not exist here in a living state. The 

 name of Vaccinium Padifolium has been proposed by Sir 

 James Smith as proper for the plant cultivated by Mr. Foulk. 

 The Vaccinium represented in the Botanist's Repository 

 (tab. 30,) as V. Arctostaphylos from Madeira, is probably erro- 

 neous, its appearance being very unlike that of V. Padifolium 

 as cultivated in the Garden of the Society. Dr. Sims has 

 given a figure in the Botanical Magazine (tab. 974) of a 

 plant as V. Arctostaphylos, said to have been obtained by 

 Messrs. Loddiges from Mount Caucasus, and which there- 

 fore may be the same that is described in Pallas's Flora 



* Tournefokt's Voyage, &c. vol. ii. page 223. 



