VII. LIST OP SHRUBS. 



as high here. Indeed, there is one now before the door 

 of the farm-house at the Duke of Devonshire's estate at 

 Chiswick that is full twelve feet high, and that blows re- 

 gularly every year. It ripens its seed here in an ordi- 

 narily good summer, and, though generally propagated 

 from cuttings or layers, is far finer when propagated 

 from the seed, which comes up the first year, and will 

 do well even when sown in the open ground. The 

 young plants make a late shoot in the fall of the year, 

 which, if frosts come early, will be pinched by them, but 

 you can cut down below this in the next spring, and your 

 plant is but the finer for it. It is not difficult to please 

 as to soil. 



S*4. ANDROMEDA the Marsh. Lat. Andromeda poly- 

 folia. Fr. Androniede d' Europe. A heath about one foot 

 high, which blows a rose-coloured flower in May. It 

 grows well in any soil, but prefers shade, and earth which 

 is light, nourishing, and easy to penetrate. Propagated 

 either by suckers or by dividing the roots, and does very 

 well after transplanting, for which February or March is 

 a better time than the autumn. When raised from seeds, 

 sow in pots under glass j use a peat soil and cover the 

 seeds very lightly over j and put them in fresh pots when 

 they are an inch or two high, placing them at such dis- 

 tances from each other as shall suffer them to grow 

 strong. 



325. ANTH YLLIS the silvery, or Jupiter s iearrl-Lat.' An- 

 thyllisbarbaJovis^-Fr. Anthillide argentf.-A shrub of Pro- 

 vence and the island of Corsica, which grows four or five feet 

 high, and blows a pule yellow flower in April and May. Pro- 

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