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find them to agree exa&ly with the recent fhrub above 
defcribed. It likewife Teems worthy of obfervation, 
that the plants railed by the gardiners by grafting or 
inarching the andrachne upon the common arbutus, 
which is the method chiefly ufed in propagating this 
elegant fhrub, differ confiderably from the plants 
raifed from feed, particularly in this, that the young 
branches, and the footfealks of the leaves, are very 
hairy,and the leaves themfelves are all without excepti- 
on deeply ferrated like the arbutus. Dr. Ruffellalfo 
informs me, that the outer bark of the old Item and 
branches abroad, are for fome months of the year of 
as beautiful a crimfon, as the young {hoots are here 
defcribed to be, and doubts not but it will be fo in this 
country, as the fhrub grows older *. 
It may not be Improper to mention, that the flower fpike 
above defcribed, with the glandular prominences, which were the 
rudiments of future flowers, made their appearance foon after 
Midfummer 176^ : they advanced very flowly during the remains 
Oi fummer ; flood the winter under a flight cover, and made no 
great progrefs, till within a month of their flowering. 
That plant, which produced thefe flowers, was one of feveral, 
w hich J. Gordon, of Mile-end, was fortunate enough to raife 
from feed, fent by Dr. Ruflell from Aleppo in 1754; and 
that this fhould be the only plant which has hitherto pro- 
duced flowers, is probably owing principally to its having been 
divers times tranfplanted. 
XW. nifiory 
