ARBUTUS; OR, STRAWBERRY TREE. 
dry ground, it seldom produces much fruit. 
As the liowers appear in autumn, if the win- 
ter prove severe, they are generally destroyed. 
To obtain fruit, therefore, the trees should be 
placed in a warm situation ; and, when the 
ground is not naturally moist, there should be 
a good quantity af loam and rotten neat's dung 
laid about their roots ; besides which, in a dry 
spring, they must be plentifully watered. 
The best time for transplanting, is Septem- 
ber, when the blossoms begin to appear ; and^ 
at that season, if it prove dry, and they are 
kept moist, they will take root very soon. 
The roots, however, towards the beginning of 
November, should be well covered vs'ith. mulchy 
to keep out the frost. 
Though the blossoms, whicli are of a yel- 
lowish white, possess no peculiar beauty ; the 
siugular appearance of fruit and flowers on 
the same tree, at this unusual season, and in 
a situation also, unusual for large scarlet straw- 
berries, which the fruit exacfllv resembles, ren- 
der it prodigiously interesting. 
