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nesota, and even farther north. It is not often that 

 specimens of more than twelve to fifteen inches in height 

 are seen, and on drier land they are even less high. The 

 foliage is composed of linear, sharp-pointed leaves, entire, 

 and with somewhat revolute edges. The midrib is promi- 

 nent, and the veins reticulated. The flowers are mostly- 

 white, and tinted with pink and sometimes tipped with 

 red. There are several varieties, differing chiefly in the 

 color of the blossoms, but all possessing the same general 

 characteristics. 



The wild rosemary is the true andromeda. The pieris, 

 Cassandra, zenobia, and leucothoe, members of the popu- 

 larly called " andromeda group," are now described under 

 their own heads. 



PIERIS. 



ALL the members of the " andromeda family" bear 

 classic names, and this title was conferred in 

 honor of Pieria, the town in Thessaly where the 

 Muses were supposed to congregate and pass much of 

 their time. Not more than ten or twelve species are 

 included in the classification, and it is not easy to deter- 

 mine the number known to the literature of mythology. 

 The pieris is now distributed over portions of China, the 

 Malay Islands, Japan, and North America, and includes 

 some of the most interesting plants known to horticul- 

 ture. Nearly all are hardy, and while especially adapted 

 to cultivation in the middle sections of the United States, 

 they can be grown in New England and many parts of 

 the Northwest. 



