ANDROMEDA FI.ORIBUN'DA. 
BUNDLE D-FLOVV KRED ANDROMEDA. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICACE*. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Duration. 
Introduced 
N. America 
3 feet. 
May & June 
Perennial. 
in 1812. 
No. 852. 
Andromeda was a lady immortalized by the fa- 
bulists of old. She was the beautiful daughter of 
the King of Ethiopia, represented as bound to a 
rock to be destroyed by monsters, but rescued by 
Perseus and made his wife. It is supposed that 
the plain facts were, simply, that a sea captain fell 
in love with her and would have carried her off, 
but that another lover was preferred, who gained 
her as his prize. This fable, like many others of 
eastern origin, — beautiful in design and execution, 
may be compared to a splendid building, — tower- 
ing to the clouds, erected as the residence of a 
favourite mouse. 
The Andromeda floribunda, is readily known 
by its five-angled peculiarly shaped flowers ; and 
its habits of forming those in autumn which expand 
in the spring. It is the finest, and one of the most 
scarce plants in the genus. It has been long in 
this country, but was, for many years, in the sole 
possession of the late Mr. Jenkins, nurseryman, of 
Regent’s Park. It is quite hardy, should be grown 
in sandy peat ; and may be propagated by layers, 
which will take two years in rooting. It ripens seeds. 
Don’s Syst. Bot. 3, 832. 
