"Miss Helen C," Benardo, San Diego co., Cal., writes : " With this I mail you a bunch of berries that I picked from one of the many bushes that cover the hills here, and wish you would tell me through the Gardeners' Monthly what it is".

[This may be called an evergreen Hawthorn, and was known to the old botanists as Crataegus arbutifolia - the last name from the leaves resembling the strawberry tree, or Arbutus Unedo of English gardens. It has also been called Photinia arbutifolia. The name now in use by botanists is Heteromeles arbutifolia. The native name of the California Indians is Tollon. On a journey from Mariposa to Calaveras the fragrance of the white flowers reminded the writer of the sweet Hawthorn hedges of the Old World. - Ed. G. M].