Andromeda and its Allies 



Bombus lapidarms and B. muscorum, are great visitors 

 to this plant, while butterflies also pay it attention. 



The fruit is a dry capsule containing several seeds 

 that eventually escape by four openings at the mouth. 



But this native shrub is not the usual garden 

 representative of its class; the foreigners, such as the 

 Japanese Andromeda (Pieris japonicd), or the North 

 American shrubs P. floribunda the Fetter-bush and 

 P. Mariana the Stagger-bush far surpass it in 

 general beauty. They are all built on bigger lines, and 

 the sprays of their white, bell-like flowers closely 

 recall, though on a larger scale, the delicate graceful 

 flower spikes of the lily of the valley. Indeed, an 

 authority declares that the Fetter-bush is absolutely 

 indispensable in a garden. This is the plant of our 

 illustration. It was sent to England in 1806 by John 

 Lyon, a Scotsman, who was an indefatigable collector 

 of North American plants, and who introduced more 

 plants from that country into this than perhaps any 

 other man has done. He died in North America in 

 1818, a victim of a dangerous epidemic contracted 

 "amidst those savage and romantic mountains which 

 had so often been the theatre of his labours." One of 

 this same group of plants, Lyonia ligustrina (some- 

 times known as Andromeda tomentosd), commemorates 

 him. 



In Pieris (or Andromeda) floribunda the leaves are 



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