ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GARDENING. 
Ananas (Pine-apple)—Ord. Bromeliacex. Stove plants, bearing 
the well-known fruit—pine apples. Orn. foliage. Evergreen. First 
introduced 1690, 
CULTURE: Compost, two parts decomposed fibry loam, one part 
well-decayed manure, another part 4 in. bones & pounded oyster shells. 
Position, pots plunged in a tan hotbed in stove facing south. Temp., 
Sept. to March 65° to 75°; March to Sept. 75° to 90°. Full exposure 
to sun essential. Water moderately in winter, freely in summer. 
Moist atmosphere most, essential in spring and summer, and a slightly 
dry one in winter. When fruit begins to ripen withhold water. Supply 
-freely with liquid manure plants in fruiting pots. Plants come into 
bearing when two years old. Propagate by suckers, or crowns of fruit 
inserted in small pots in temp. 80°, spring. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: A. sativus, 3 ft., Trop. America; A. sativus variegatus, 
leaves edged with yellow or red. 
Anaphalis (Pearly Everlasting or Immortelle)—Ord. Composite. 
Hardy perennial. Flowers, white, useful for cutting in August and 
drying tor winter use. 
CULTURE: Soil, ordinary. Position, sunny borders. Plant in Oct. 
or March. Increased by division in autumn or spring; seeds sown 
outdoors in apm 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: <A. margaritacea, white, July and Aug., 1 ft., 
N. America. 
Anastatica (Rose of Jericho; Resurrection Plant).—Ord. Cruci- 
fere. Half-hardy annual. Possesses the peculiar property in its native 
country of withering up in dry weather, and when rain comes of 
spreading itself out again, as though alive. 
CULTURE: Soil, ordinary. Sow seeds in a cold frame in spring 
& plant in sunny border in May. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: A. Hierochuntica, white, summer, 1 ft., Orient. 
Anchor Plant (Colletia cruciata).—See Colletia. 
Anchusa (Alkanet; Sea Bugloss)—Ord. Boraginacee. Hardy 
biennials & perennials. 
CULTURE: Soil, ordinary. Position, sunny borders. Plant, Oct. 
or March. Propagate biennials by seeds sown jin. deep in March in 
pans or boxes of sandy soil, temp. 55° to 65°, or outdoors in April; 
perennials by division in Oct. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: A. Barrelieri, blue and white, June, 2 ft., Europe, 
perennial; capensis, blue, July, 12 to 18 in., 8S. Africa, biennial; italica, blue, 
July, 3 to 4 ft., S. France, perennial; sempervirens, Llue, June, 2 it., Kurope, 
perennial. . : . 
Anderson’s Speedwell (Veronica Andersoni)—See Vero- 
nica. 
Andre’s Flamingo-plant (Anthurium andreanum).—See 
Anthurium, : : 
Andromeda (Marsh Rosemary; Wild Rosemary).—Ord. Erica- 
cee. Hardy flowering shrub. Evergreen. : 
CULTURE: Soil, boggy peat. Position, moist, shady borders or 
beds. Plant, Oct. No pruning required except to cut away dead wood. 
Propagate by layering shoots in Sept.; seeds sown in peaty soil in a 
Gol: frame. 
SPECIES CULTIVATED: A. polifolia, pink, June, 1 ft., North Temperate 
Regions. Angustifolia, rosmarinifolia and major are varieties. See Pieris, Cas- 
sandra, Leucothoé and Zenobia for other species formerly included in this genus. 
Andropogon (Lemon Grass)—Ord. Graminex. Stove & hardy 
ornamental flowering grasses. First introduced 1786. 
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