ARBUTUS PKOCE'RA. 
TALL STRAWBERRY TREE. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACE^. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
N. America 
18 inches. 
May. 
Shrub. 
in 1827. 
No. 943. 
The origin of the word Arbutus is involved in 
some uncertainty from which it is not now likely to 
be extricated. The Celtic ar, signifying rough, and 
boise, a bush, are usually considered the origin of 
Arbutus. But, as we have before stated, it is as 
likely to have been adopted by the Latins from 
their own word arbos, a tree. 
This evergreen glossy-leaved shrub, is a native of 
the north-west coast of North America, where it was 
discovered in mountainous woods, by the late inde- 
fatigable Douglas, in his capacity of collector for 
the London Horticultural Society. It was pre- 
viously unknown to botanists, and although it has 
been distributed by the society amongst its Fellows, 
it has not hitherto been very generally cultivated. 
This may have arisen from its being too tender to 
bear the vicissitudes of an English winter in all 
situations, it lived however, unprotected and unin- 
jured, through the destructive winter of 1837 — 8, 
both in Devonshire and Middlesex ; therefore a 
wall, or slight protection will secure its preservation. 
It may be increased by cuttings, or by grafting 
on the common species. 
