ANDROMEDA. 



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ANEMONE. 



produced before the leaves, half their 

 beauty will be lost from the cold and 

 naked appearance of the tree. All 

 the Almonds will grow and blossom 

 freely in the smoke of London. 



Anagallis. — Primulacece. — The 

 Pimpernel. Trailing herbaceous 

 plants, natives of the middle and south 

 of Europe. The common wild pim- 

 pernel, A. arvensis, is red, but the 

 exotic species vary to several shades 

 of purple, lilac, and blue. The finest 

 species is A. Monelli, which requires 

 the protection of the greenhouse 

 during winter, but which forms a 

 beautiful close covering for a flower- 

 bed in the open garden in summer, 

 producing its fine mazarine blue 

 flowers from May to September. It 

 is easily propagated by cuttings which 

 root immediately in sand under a 

 hand-glass, and it will thrive in any 

 light soil. 



Anchusa. — Boragineoe. — Coarse 

 growing plants, annuals and peren- 

 nials, natives of the south of Europe, 

 and in part of Asia and Africa, re- 

 markable for their intensely blue 

 flowers, in some cases varied with red 

 and white. The finest species is A. 

 particulate/,, or italica, the Italian 

 Bugloss, which is common in gar- 

 dens. The flowers are in erect leafy 

 spikes, and are of a brilliant blue, with 

 their backs and buds of a reddish 

 purple, and the plant continues 

 flowering from June to September. 

 The most ornamental of the annual 

 species are now included in the genus 



NoNEA. 



Andrachne. See Arbutus. 



Andro'meda. — Ericeoe, — Low 

 deciduous and evergreen heath-like 

 shrubs, chiefly natives of North Ame- 

 rica, and some of which are very orna- 

 mental. The species which were 

 comprised in the genus Andromeda 

 of Linnaeus, have been divided by 

 Professor Don into seven genera ; 

 viz., Cassiope, Cassandra, Zenobia, 



Lyonia, Leucothoe, Pieris, and Ago- 

 nista ; but the plants are still known 

 by their old names in most of the 

 nurseries. The species left in An- 

 dromeda by Professor Don, are A. 

 polifolia, and A, rosmarinifolia. 

 The handsomest species are A. spe- 

 ciosa (Zencbia), A. racemosa (Lyo- 

 nia), A. Catesbeii (Leucothoe spinu- 

 losa), zxAA.floribunda (Leucothoe). 

 All the species are generally grown in 

 heath mould, or peat, but they will 

 also thrive in very fine sandy loam. 

 In whatever soil they may be grown, 

 the roots should never be suffered to 

 become quite dry ; as like those of 

 all the hair- rooted plants, when once 

 withered, they cannot be restored ; 

 and the plant has seldom vigour 

 enough to send out a sufficient quan- 

 tity of new ones. All the kinds are 

 propagated by layers. 



Androsa n ce x . — Primulacece. — Lit- 

 tle insignificant plants, not worth 

 growing except for rockwork ; and 

 only suited for that purpose, from 

 their feeble habit of growth, which 

 prevents them from spreading fast. 



Andros^mum. — Hypericinacece. 

 — A handsome evergreen British 

 plant, with showy yellow flowers ; 

 very useful in covering the ground in 

 shrubberies. It prefers a moist, shady 

 situation, and is uninjured by the drip 

 of trees. The English name of thia 

 plant is Tutsan. 



Anemone. — Ranunculaceoe. — All 

 the plants belonging to this genus are 

 beautiful and well deserving of culti- 

 vation; from the little white wood 

 Anemone {A. nemoralis), to the 

 largest Dutch varieties of A. corona- 

 ria, which have been sometimes 

 known to be six inches in diameter. 

 The wild anemones, that is those 

 found in the woods, and the Pasque- 

 flower (A. Pulsatilla, or P. vulga- 

 ris), require but little care in their 

 culture ; but the garden varieties of 

 A. hortensis, and A. coronaria, will 



