DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF FLOWERING SHRUBS. 397 
in the spring with elegant flowers resembling small roses. 
Easily propagated by suckers. When budded upon the 
plum stock it is much more hardy than when grown on 
its own roots, and in this way a magnificent head may be 
formed at any desired height from the ground. 
A. Pérsica-flore-pleno.—Double-flowering Peach,— is 
very beautiful in the shrubbery. The flowers are very 
large and full, and there is a purple and a white variety. 
The trees should be kept well headed in, or they will be- 
come straggling and unsightly. This may also be budded 
upon plum stocks, and if properly pruned will make a 
great show when in flower. 
ANDROMEDA. ' 
{Named in allusion the virgin Andromeda, who, like this plant, was confined 
in a marsh, and surrounded by the monsters of the water.] 
Andromeda polifélia.—W ater Andromeda.—This beau- 
tiful little shrub is from twelve to eighteen inches high, 
found in wet, mossy bogs, from Pennsylvania to the ex- 
treme north of the continent. The flowers are red before 
they open, but, when fully expanded, of a rosy hue. It 
flowers in June. It is difficult to manage in cultivation, 
‘unless it has a moist situation and a soil composed mainly 
of peat. 
There are a number of North American species, which 
might be introduced into the shrubbery with good effect. 
Most of them are dwarfs, and succeed well with the same 
treatment that is given to the Azalea. 
A. speciésa and-all its varieties are very beautiful, and 
flower in great profusion, and continue in leaf nearly the 
whole year, although they are not, strictly, evergreen 
shrubs. They grow about three feet high. 
They are all propagated by seed, layers, or cuttings, 
