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in the spring with elegant flowers resembling small roses. 

 Easily propagated by snckers. When budded upon the 

 plum stock it is much more hardy than when grown on 

 its own roots, and in this way a magnificent head may be 

 formed at any desired height from the ground. 



A. Persica-flore-pleno. — Double-flowering Peach, — is 

 very beautiful in the shrubbery. The flowers are very 

 large and full, and there is a purple and a white variety. 

 The trees should be kept well headed in, or they will be- 

 come straggling and unsightly. This may also be budded 

 upon plum stocks, and if properly pruned will make a 

 great show when in flower. 



ANDROMEDA. 



[Named in allusion llie virgin Atidromeda, who, like this plant, was confined 

 in a marsli, and surrounded by the monsters of the water.] 



Andromeda polifolia.— Water Andromeda. — This beau- 

 tiful little shrub is from twelve to eighteen inches high, 

 found in wet, mossy bogs, from Pennsylvania to the ex- 

 treme north of the continent. The flowers are red before 

 they open, but, when fully expanded, of a rosy hue. It 

 flowers in June. It is difficult to manage in cultivation, 

 imless it has a moist situation and a soil composed mainly 

 of peat. 



There are a 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. 



Ai 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. 



