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HARDY PERENNIALS AND 



Andromeda Tetragona. 



Syn. CASSIOPE TETRAGONA; Nat. Ord. ERICACEAE. 

 A DWARF hardy evergreen shrub, which comes to us from 

 Lapland and North America; though a very beautiful subject 

 for either rockwork or border, it is rarely seen. It is not one of 

 the easiest plants to grow, which may, to some extent, account 

 for its rarity. Still, when it can have its requirements, it not 

 only thrives well, but its handsome form and flowers repay any 

 extra trouble it may have given. In the culture of this, as of 

 most plants of the order Ericaceae, there is decidedly a right way 

 and a wrong one, and if the species now under consideration has 

 one or two special requirements it deserves them. 



FIG. 5. ANDROMEDA TETRAGONA. 

 (One-half natural size). 



With me it never exceeds a height of 6in. or 7in., is much 

 branched, and of a fine apple green colour; the flowers are 

 small but very beautiful, bell-shaped, pendent, and springing 

 from the leafy stems of the previous year's growth. The leaves 

 are small as well as curious, both in form and arrangement, 

 completely hiding their stems ; their roundish grain-shaped 

 forms are evenly arranged in four rows extending throughout 

 the whole length of the branches (whence the name tetragona), 

 giving them a square appearance resembling an ear of wheat, 



