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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 very difficult to please as to soil. 



325. ANDROMEDA, the Marsh.— \jaX. Andromeda poly- 

 folia, A heath about one foot high, w hich 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 ; 

 use a peat soil and cover the seeds very lightly over ; and put 

 them in fresh pots when they are an inch or two high, placing 

 them at such distances from each other as shall suffer them to 

 grow strong. 



326. ANTHYLLIS the silvery, or Jupiter s heard.— L^ii. An- 

 thyllis harha Jovis. A shrub of Provence and the island of Cor- 

 sica, which grows four or five feet high, and blows a pale yellow 

 flower in April and May. Propagated by layers, cuttings, suck- 

 ers, or seed sowed under a frame. Likes rich earth, and is a 

 green-house plant. 



327. APPLE, the double-flowered.— See Pyrus. 



328. ARBUTUS, or Strawherry-tree. — Lat. A.unedo.A large 

 evergreen shrub, and a native of Ireland, which blows in Sep- 

 tember and October. The flower is of a yellowish white, or 

 red. It bears a fruit very much resembling the strawberry. Pro- 

 pagated by layers made in February, or the beginning of March ; 

 also by seed sown, immediately after it is ripe, in pots of lightish 

 earth, which should be exposed to the south-east till the seed 

 comes up. When the p ants are four or five inches high, they are 

 planted in small pots, and put into a house during the winter till 

 they are strong enough to put in the open earth. It is peculiarly 

 suited to lawns and shrubberies, where it makes a good show, 

 and grows to the height of ten or fifteen feet. Andrachne Ar- 

 butus is another species, from the Levant. It has larger flowers 

 of a deep red, but it is not so hardy, and, if planted in the open 

 ground, must be secured against frosts. 



329. AZALEA, the ichite-floicered. — Lat. A. viscosa. A pretty 

 and hardy shrub from North America, about three feet high, and 



