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CULTURE OF THE GENUS GAULTHERIA. 
The species of this genus are ornamental, and well deserving of cultivation. The 
G. Shallon, though small in this country, grows to a considerable size in its native 
woods. Mr. Knight’s observations on the habits of this plant were kindly furnished 
us some time ago by Dr. Bevan, which we will here insert. “ I have obtained a 
shrub,” says Mr. Knight, “ from the west coast of North America, the blossoms of 
which contain more honey, and I think of finer quality, than I have observed in any 
other. The blossoms are very similar to those of the Arbutus , a plant to which it 
is very nearly allied, and the trees are a good deal similar in form and stature, though 
I think the G. Shallon rather more nearly resembles the Laurustinus. Each flower 
appears to contain as much honey as the honey-bee usually carries home at once. 
The plant is supposed to be perfectly hardy, and is propagated by slips and by seed, 
to any extent, without trouble. It grows under the shade of trees in North America, 
and will probably bear a good deal of shade in our climate. It is a very ornamental 
plant, and bears a fruit very similar in form to a bilberry, which it resembles in 
colour, but is as large as a middle-sized grape ; and Mr. David Douglas, who brought 
it home to the Horticultural Society, assured me that it is very sweet and palatable. 
He himself at one time lived wholly upon it for three days and a half.” It is 
propagated best by layers. 
The G. procumbens is an evergreen creeper, and may be readily propagated by 
suckers. 
There are two greenhouse species, the G. fragrans , and antipoda , which pro- 
pagate freely by layers, or cuttings, planted in sand under a bell-glass, and plunged 
in a slight heat. 
All the species should be planted in sandy peat earth, or, in the absence of that, 
very light loam mixed with a large portion of sand. 
CULTURE OF THE TULIP. 
The Tulip is considered to be a native of the Levant, and is very common in 
Syria and Persia, and, according to Gesner, was brought to Europe in 1559, and 
was cultivated in England by James Garnett, as early as 1577. Towards the 
middle of the seventeenth century, it became an object of particular interest in the 
Netherlands ; nay, to such a height had the passion for tulips arrived in 1637, that 
at a public auction, which took place at Alkmaar. 120 tulip roots were sold for no less 
a sum than 787 51., and one sort alone, called the Viceroy, cost the purchaser 190/. 
