terprise and usefulness to our own country. It is 
not alone for the intrinsic value of a plant, that it 
enters deeply into our esteem, but it is oftentimes 
the associations with which it is connected, that 
gives it a place in our affections. How frequently 
have we heard an allusion to a certain tree, or shrub, 
or flower, having been the favourite of some dis- 
tant or departed friend, which has rendered it an 
object of more than common regard to the posses- 
sor ; and who amongst us is there, that has really 
taken an interest in his garden, that cannot turn 
to some one or other of his favourite plants, which, 
like an old or confidential friend, can excite plea- 
sureable reminiscences connected with his warmest 
affections ! 
The Andromeda arborea is found, according to 
the best authorities, growing wild from Pennsyl- 
vania to Florida, in the valleys of the Alleghany 
Mountains, where it forms a handsome tree of the 
height of fifty feet. In England it has never, per- 
haps, exceeded twenty feet high, and of such speci- 
mens of growth very few occur. If, however, it 
grow but half that height in our shrubberies, it 
cannot , when hearing its thickly-set panicles of flow- 
ers, fail of being looked on with pleasure. Its leaves, 
we are told, are sought by the hunters in the moun- 
tains, to alleviate thirst, possessing as they do, a 
grateful acidity ; whence the tree has been called 
the Sorrel Tree. 
Andromeda arborea shoidd be planted in peat, 
and have a warm and sheltered situation. It is 
of slow growth, and is usually propagated by lay- 
ers, but sometimes from American seeds. 
