201 TREATISE 



Chapter XXXVI. 

 The arbutus, or STRAWBERRY TREE. 



The Species are : 



1. The common Strawberry Tree, with round fruit. 



2. The Strawberry Tree, with longer flowers and eggf 



fhap'd fruit. 



3. The fmooth-leav'd Strawberry Tree. 



4. The cut-leav'd Strawberry Tree. 



5. The red-flowering Strawberry Tree. 



6. The Strawberry Tree with a double flower.. 



^ I ''HE five forts firfl: mentioned, are to be propagated either by^ 

 feeds or layers. The method by feeds I fliall firfl: direcft. 

 Tliefe feeds are commonly ripe from the middle of November till 

 the end of December, as the fummer and autumn have been more 

 or lefs kindly : But one caution is neceflary to be given in ga- 

 thering them, which is, not to do it all at once, otherways a great 

 part of them will be good for nothing, as there are many ripe 

 and unripe fruit on the tree at the fame time. The ripe berries 

 are eafily difcovered from thofe that are not, by becoming, from 

 the richefl: fcarlet, of a deep brovv^nifli tawny colour : Therefore, 

 from the firft time you difcover any of them of this hue, exa- 

 mine your trees every two or three days, and gather them as 

 long as there' arc any remaining. Thefe berries retain their 



