THE GARDENER’S VEGETABLE SYSTEM 
The feeds are moftly obtained from North America, 
by the principal leeolmen, arriving generally in. the 
tpring. ‘ When in March, or April, fow them in a 
lieu or pot of light earth, placing them in a lhady 
(ituation, to have only the morning fun all fummer, 
and under lhelter of a warm wall, or garden frame, in 
winter; or ii expoled in the full air, cover them, in 
trolly weather ; or if the pots arc plunged in a hot-bed 
in the fpring, the plants will come up fooner in a free 
growth : give water in lummer, and defend them in 
winter from the rigours of froft, one or two years ; 
then, in the fpring, when a year or two old, tranfplant 
them, fome into pots ilngly, others into the nurfery, 
and in both of which may continue till they acquire 
proper ftrer.gth and fize, of two, three, or four feet; 
and may then be finally tranfplanted into ihrubberies, 
&c. to remain. 
Or to propagate them occafiona'ly by joots, thefe 
generally fpreading horizontally, take off lome cut¬ 
tings in the fpring, five or fix inches long, plant them 
in pots, and, placed in hot-beds, they will grow and 
produce (hoots above. 
Generic Chambers .—Hermaphrodite flowers, in ftnall, 
pendulous clufters;—the calyx fmall, nve-parted.— 
Corolla, or flower, monopetalous, or of one pitcher- 
Ihape petal, five-parted and reflexed at the brim ; ten 
fliort (lamina, crowned with bifid anthera.—A piftil- 
lum, confiding of a globular germen at the bottom of 
the flower, having a cylindric ilyie terminated by an 
obtufe ftigma ; and the germen grows a rounuifh ber¬ 
ry of five cells, filled with fmall, hard feeds. 
The Species are, 
i. Arbutus Unedo, (Unedo) or Common Straw¬ 
berry Tree. 
A moderate tree, or large (hrub* growing eight, 
ten, or twelve feet high.—A tree-like ftem ; the leaves 
(middling fize) ovate, fmooth, ferrated or fawed, 
and large red berries, having many feeds.—Native 
of the fouthern parts of Europe, the Eaft, and of 
Ireland. 
Varieties of this .—Common Arbutus, with Angle 
flowers. 
The culture of this fpecies in advanced growth, .in 
the lhrubbcry, &c. is principally to prune to order 
any irregular productions of (hoots, &c. and, as fome- 
times, in rigorous winters, the froft: kills the extreme 
cr upper fucculent parts of the (hoots, cut off the dead 
parts, and the (terns and branches of more hardy and 
woody growth below will (hoot out again in fpring 
and fummer. 
Arbutus, STRAWBERRY TREE. 
Clafs and Order. 
Decandria Monogynia, 
Ten Males , One Female ; 
Or Hermaphrodite Flowers , containing ten Stamina , or 
Males , and one Pijlily or Female, within the fame 
Cover. 
THE Arbutus confift of feveral fpecies and va¬ 
rieties, moderate tree, and fmall (brubby kinds, all 
of the ever-green tribe; very beautiful, both as prin¬ 
cipal, ornamental ever-greens, and molt elegant flow¬ 
ering-trees and (hrubs, as well as Angularly ornamental 
in their production of Strawberry-like fruit; are adorned 
at all feafons,with oblong and oval leaves, and numerous 
pendulous clulters of fmall, monopetalous, pitcher - 
fhaped, white flowers in autumn, fucceeded by large, 
ovate, and oblong red berries, ripening in the follow¬ 
ing autumn and winter; furniftied with many fmall 
feeds, by which the trees are propagated by fowing 
them in the fpring ; alfo by layers of the young 
Ihoots, 
Double-flowered Common Arbutus. 
Scarlet-flowered Common Arbutus. 
Waved-leaved Common Arbutus. 
Oval-fruited Common Arbutus. 
Round Berried. 
Yellow Berried. 
None of thefe berries are eatable. 
2. Arbutus Andrachne, (Andrachne) or Eaftern 
Broad-leaved Arbutus. 
A moderate tree, growing ten to twelve, or fifteen 
feet high, or more: the Hera tree-like, branching ir¬ 
regular ; leaves (largiftt) ovate, fmooth, intire; and 
large, red berries, having many feeds.—Native of the 
Eaft—in the Levant. 
3. Arbutus Uva-urft, (Uva-urfi) Bear-berry, or 
Dwarf Arbutus. 
A low, trailing, fhrubby plant; the Hems (lender, 
branchy, and procumbent; leaves (fmall) ovate, and 
intire; and fmall, red berries.—Native of the cold 
parts of Europe, Canada, &c. 
4. Arbutus alpina, Alpine, or Mountain, trailing 
Arbutus. 
A fmall, trailing, ftirubby plant; the Herns (lender 
and procumbent; leaves (fmall) oblong, roughifti, 
and fawed; and fmall berries, black when ripe.— 
Native of the mountains in Lapland, Switzerland, 
Siberia, England, &c. 
Of 
