The florists vade-mecum being a choice compendium of whatever worthy notice hath been extant for the propagation, raising, planting, encreasing and preserving the rarest flowers and plants ... together with The gardiners almanack ... / by Samuel Gilbert.

NOVEMBER. In this Month is,

ARbutus, the Strawbury Tree in its greatest glory; the body hath a rough but the branches a smooth Bark, with leaves alternately green like the Bayes, finely purled about the edges, long yet round pointed, the flowers grow on the ends of the branches, with long stalks and are small little white bottles, like those of the Lilly of the Valley, which are of little beauty, but succeeded by red berries like to Straw-berries, harsh in taste, containing small and many seeds: the whole rises not here to two yards high, its usual height in its native Countrey Ire∣land; the berries are its beauty, ripe in this Month: and therefore herein placed, which being mixed with its fine green leaves, are very delightful to the eye; young Plants are raised from seeds, and some by layers, but long e're they root, and when removed, the earth must be ta∣ken up with them and carefully planted, being nice whilest young, but elder are hardy, and will prosper under any warm Wall.