84 FAMILIAR FLOWERS OF FIELD AND GARDEN. 



summer, but is scarce(ly interesting enough to de- 

 serve attention while so many other more beautiful 

 flowers are in our midst. 



Stagger-bush. The stagger- 



Andromeda Mariana, bush ffroWS in 



low ground eastward and 

 south, but I have never 

 found it in New Hamp- 

 shire; The tiny flowers, 

 less than half an inch 

 long, are cylindrical in 

 shape, and are sometimes 

 tinged faintly with pink. 

 So dainty a flower must 

 surely attract those to 

 whom it is not a famil- 

 iar object ; the blossom 

 slightly resembles the 

 wintergreen or checker- 

 berry flower, to which 

 it is closely related, and 

 the glossy olive - green 

 leaf is said to be poi- 

 sonous to lambs and 

 calves. The flowers will be found in late spring 

 and early summer, on the slender woody stems 

 of a bush about three feet high. The shrub has 



stagger-bush. 



