590 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



THE ANDROMEDAS. Andromeda (Leiicothx of Loudon). 



Low evergreen, or sub-evergreen, shrubs ; mostly natives of the 

 southern States, some of which have come into notice at the north 

 within a few years, and prove valuable acquisitions in the middle 

 States. 



The Andromeda floribunda, Fig. 183, is the 

 most charming dwarf evergreen shrub we have. 

 It grows well in the Central Park, and in private 

 gardens near New York ; but is extremely difficult 

 to propagate, and therefore scarce, and high- 

 priced. It forms a very compact oblate shrub, two to three feet 

 high, and much broader. The leaves resemble those of the privet 

 in color, size, and form. Flowers in May and June, small, white, 

 in spikes or racemes three to five inches long, projected beyond 

 the leaves. An exquisite shrub while in bloom, and of conspicuous 

 neatness of form and foliage throughout the season. 



The A. axillaris is a dense-leaved compact spreading shrub, 

 three feet high. Flourishes in the Central Park, New York. 

 Flowers small, in white spikes, in May and June. The leaves turn 

 a brilliant reddish-purple in autumn. 



The A. catesbeii or shiny-leaved, is a pretty variety with glossy 

 leaves which turn to a brilliant reddish-purple in autumn. Size 

 same as preceding. 



A. spinulosa is a low variety, evergreen, native of Canada, which 

 we have not seen in cultivation ; said to resemble the preceding. 



THE COTONEASTER. Cotoneaster. 



THE SMALL-LEAVED COTONEASTER, C. microphylla, and the 

 ROUND-LEAVED, C. rotundifolia, are prostrate evergreen shrubs, 

 adapted to creep on rock-work or walls. Loudon says of the former : 

 " It is exceedingly hardy " (in England), " and forms a fine plant 

 on rock-work or on a lawn where it has room to extend itself. 

 A plant at High Close, of about ten years' growth, was six feet 



