220 BRECK'S BOOK OF FLOWERS. 



ANDROMEDA. 



Androrneda. Named in allusion to the virgin, Andromeda, 

 who, like this plant, was confined in a marsh, and surrounded 

 by the monsters of the water. 



The species are neat plants, and some of them considerable 

 shrubs; all requiring a moist situation and peat earth. 



A. polifolia. Water Andromeda. This beautiful little 

 shrub is from twelve to eighteen inches high, found in wet, 

 mossy bogs, in various parts of the state, and to the extreme 

 north of this continent. The flowers are red before they open, 

 but, when fully expanded, of a rosy hue. It flowers in June. 



There are a great number of North American species, which 

 might be introduced into the shrubbery with good effect. 

 Most of them are dwarfs, and succeed well with the same 

 treatment that is given to the Azalea. 



A. speciosa and all its varieties are very beautiful, and flower 

 in great profusion, and continue in leaf nearly the whole year, 

 although they are not, strictly, evergreen shrubs. They grow 

 about three feet high. 



They are all propagated by seed, layers, or cuttings. 



ARISTOLO CHI A. 



Birth-wort. 



Aristolochia sipho. Pipe Vine. A singular climbing 

 plant, with handsome, broad foliage, with brownish purple, and 

 very curious, somewhat pipe-shaped flowers. It grows fifteen 

 or twenty feet high; blooms in June and July; propagated 

 from layers and cuttings. It 'flourishes in any good, strong 

 soil. 



AZALEA. 



This is a genus of highly ornamental shrubs, of which 

 many species are indigenous. 



