. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 4772. The dwarf crimson bramble (Rubm arcticus) (Eng. Bot. 1585.) (Jig. 502.) produces an excellent berry, found only on the highest and wildest mountains of Scotland. By successional sowing of the seeds on differ- ent levels, doubtless it might be broug
. An encyclopædia of gardening; comprising the theory and practice of horticulture, floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, including all the latest improvements; a general history of gardening in all countries; and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress, in the British Isles. Gardening. 4772. The dwarf crimson bramble (Rubm arcticus) (Eng. Bot. 1585.) (Jig. 502.) produces an excellent berry, found only on the highest and wildest mountains of Scotland. By successional sowing of the seeds on differ- ent levels, doubtless it might be brought down, step by step, to live and produce fruit on plains, and in appropriate parts of gardens. 4773. The dewberry (Ru~ bus ca-sius) (Eng. Bot. 826.) (jfie. 503. \ the stone-bramble (Rubus ) (Eng. Bot. 2233.) (fig. 504. a), and the up- right bramble (Riibus sube- rectus) (Eng. Bot. 2572.) (fig. 504. b), afford agreeable acid and aromatic fruits, which come in late in the season, and merit attempts with a view to accommodating them to habits of cultivation. The same remarks will apply to a plant common in the woods of Russia and Poland, and which Dr. Clarke has figured, and named Cripsia; but which appears to be a species of rubus, and probably a variety of R. suberectus. 4774. The snowberry is the Ganlthe- ria serpyllifo- lia,; Vac- cinium hispi- dulumy Li. ; and Chiogcnes of Salisbury. (Mich. Am. i. t. 23.) Becan. Monog. L. and Ericece, J. " At Shaw- hill, near Ha- lifax, it pro- duced fruit abundantly, planted under a north wall, shaded behind by high trees, in a border of sandy peat; and it succeed- ed pretty well in nearly a similar situation at Chapel Allerton, during the eighteen years ot my resi- dence at"that place, often ripening its berries ; hut they being little esteemed, I only preserved a patch of it as a rare plant. The flavor of the fruit, however, is exceedingly agreeable to some persons, being stronglv perfumed, like eau de noyau, or
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