ANDROMEDA MARIA'NA. 
MARYLAND ANDROMEDA. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
ERICEA3. 
Native of 
Height 
Flowers in 
Duration 
Introduced 
N. America. 
2 feet. 
June, July. 
Perennial. 
in 1736. 
No. 240. 
The mythological story of the beautiful Andro- 
meda, has been previously noticed ; and Linneus’s 
reason for the application of it should not be omitted. 
He found the Andromeda polifolia decorating the 
marshy grounds of Lapland. Its flowers, when ex- 
panded, are a most delicate flesh colour, resembling 
the beauty of the finest female complexion ; which 
reminded him of Andromeda, as pictured by the 
poets. She, too, was chained to a rock, in the sea ; 
as her vegetable prototype is fixed on a hillock, in 
the swamps of the north. His analogy is carried 
further, but these are the leading features that in- 
duced him to call his new genus Andromeda. 
Though this little shrub is a native of marshes, 
and wet places, in its native country, and may be 
expected to succeed best in similar situations with 
us, still a very wet soil is not indispensable to its 
healthy growth. If it be planted in well pulverized 
peat, or a mixture of peat and loam, where the soil 
will not be scorched by summer heat, its growth, and 
an abundance of flowers, will be secured. In English 
nurseries it is generally increased by layers; but, 
occasionally, by seeds. 
Hort. Kew. 2, v. 3, 51. 
