VACCIN'IUM DISOMORTHUM. 
TALL \\'HORTLEBEBRY. 
Class. 
OCTANDRIA. 
Order, 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
VACCJNACEA. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America. 
5 feet. 
May. 
Shrub. 
in 1806. 
No. 990. 
Vaccinium, perhaps a changed spelling from 
bacciniuin, beny-beaiing. Of this genus about 
sixty distinct species ai-e enumerated by botanists, 
the greater proportion of them natives of America 
— that inexhaustible source of vegetable riches. 
Botanists, so long as they have access to this great 
continent, can never dispair of a supply of novel- 
ties ; such, too, as are the most valuable to Great 
Britain, from the hardiness of their character. 
Our gardens bear ample, it may be said glittering, 
testimony, of late yeai-s, to the additions they have 
received from America. 
The plant now under consideration is, by some 
writers, considered a variety of Corymbosa ; it is, 
however, verj’ distinct, in general habit, frorrr the 
plant usually known as Corymbosa. Its frarit adds 
to its ornamental appearance, and is eatable, being 
used as is the better known cranberay. 
It should be planted in a sheltered situation, itr 
peat earth ; may be increased by layering, in the 
spring; and in the following spring the young 
plants will be fit for removal. It may, also, be 
increased frorrr seeds. 
