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admirably, flowering most profusely in the early spring months, the 
branches being loaded with racemes G to 8 inches long and gracefully 
drooping, as shown in our woodcut (fig. 68). The flowers are pure white, 
grown to be covered with flowers. As a conservatory plant this Andro¬ 
meda is very useful, for it is most easily grown, only requiring good loam 
soil with a little leaf soil or a small quantity of old manure. During the 
Fig. 68.—Andromeda (Pieris) japonica. 
like many of the Heaths in shape, the calyx ‘and flower stalk being often 
of a reddish colour that contrasts very well with the white flowers. The 
racemes are chiefly produced from near the points of the branches, and the 
plants being naturally of a compact bushy habit, they appear when well 
summer it is better out of doors, and in some warm^localities it is grown 
in this way throughout the year. 
Andromeda japonica is one of the few plants figured in Thunberg's 
« pdora Japonica” in 1784, and a comparison of that illustration with the 
