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ARBUTUS IIYBRIDA. 
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Arbutus hybbida. 
cross-bred garden origin. Tins beautiful 
i Strawberry tree forms a broad bushy mass 
' 12 ft. to 15 ft. high, densely furnished with 
: branches, w’hich are cylindrical, and thinly 
i pilose. The leaves are elliptic in form, 3 in. 
long, and l^in., or more, in breadth, dark 
green, smooth and shining above, paler be¬ 
neath, and finely serrated on the margin, 
attached by a short channelled petiole. The 
inflorescence consists of terminal drooping 
panicles of urceolate flowers, of a pale or watery 
greenish-white colour, wax-like in appearance, 
and hanging in dense ovoid pointed masses from 
the top of every shoot; they are about f in. 
long, and are each attached by a short smooth 
pedicel. These flowers smell strongly of 
Cucumbers. The woodcut shows a side-sprig, 
bearing one of the smaller flower-panicles ; an 
enlarged flower seen from the outside and in 
section ; and a much more highly magnified 
view of one of the anthers, showing the pores 
by which they shed their pollen, and the 
curious curved awns attached to the back of 
the anther-cells. 
This fine Arbutus is represented in the ac¬ 
companying figure from the Gardeners' Chron¬ 
icle. We are indebted to Messrs. G. Jackman 
and Son, of Woking, for the specimens described, 
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