it to our gratitude, still it should be remembered 
that it has also, more or less, directly or indirectly, 
improved every species of our garden productions. 
“ It takes under its care all the variety of produce 
which the garden can yield as food and sustenance 
to man.” It has powerfully assisted in forming a 
new community, bound together by kindred pur- 
suits, of the purest character ; and thereby aided 
in the performance of a great moral good. 
Douglas, w’hose name is familiar to our readers, 
as an entei’prising botanical collector, and who 
was sent out by the Horticultural Society, to North 
America, re- discovered this plant. He found it, 
like the Valerianella, previously noticed, on the 
north-west coast of America. He sent home dried 
specimens and seeds ; and from the latter, in the 
Society's garden, plants were propagated, and sub- 
sequently increased ; hut not so abundantly at 
present, as to make the species so generally known 
as it deserves ; for as a small evergreen shnib, 
independently of its flowers, it deserves a place 
amongst the best peat jdants of every collection. 
This plant, like Ericas, Kalmias, and others of 
the same class, requires to be planted in peat soil. 
Their hair-like roots require a species of earth that 
they can easily penetrate ; and where good j^eat 
cannot be had, the best substitute for it is decayed 
leaves, mixed with the fine silver sand, usually 
employed by nurserymen, of whom it may gen- 
erally be purchased. Layering is the usual mode 
of increase of this Vaccinium, but the layers will 
require to remain two years before they will be well 
rooted for removal. 
