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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
THE ANDROMEDAS. Andromeda (Leucothce of Loudon). 
Low evergreen, or sub-evergreen, shrubs; mostly natives of the 
southern States, some of which have come into notice at the north 
within a few years, and prove valuable acquisitions in the middle 
States. 
The Andromeda floribunda , Fig. 183, is the 
most charming dwarf evergreen shrub we have. 
It grows well in the Central Park, and in private 
gardens near New York; but is extremely difficult 
to propagate, and therefore scarce, and high- 
priced. It forms a very compact oblate shrub, two to three feet 
high, and much broader. The leaves resemble those of the privet 
in color, size, and form. Flowers in May and June, small, white, 
in spikes or racemes three to five inches long, projected beyond 
the leaves. An exquisite shrub while in bloom, and of conspicuous 
neatness of form and foliage throughout the season. 
The A. axillaris is a dense-leaved compact spreading shrub, 
three feet high. Flourishes in the Central Park, New York. 
Flowers small, in white spikes, in May and June. The leaves turn 
a brilliant reddish-purple in autumn. 
The A. catesbeii or shiny-leaved, is a pretty variety with glossy 
leaves which turn to a brilliant reddish-purple in autumn. Size 
same as preceding. 
A. spinulosa is a low variety, evergreen, native of Canada, which 
we have not seen in cultivation ; said to resemble the preceding. 
Fro. 187. 
THE COTONEASTER. Cotoneaster. 
The Small-leaved Cotoneaster, C. microphylla , and the 
Round-leaved, C. rotundifolia , are prostrate evergreen shrubs, 
adapted to creep on rock-work or walls. Loudon says of the former: 
“ It is exceedingly hardy ” (in England), “and forms a fine plant 
on rock-work or on a lawn where it has room to extend itself. 
A plant at High Close, of about ten years’ growth, was six feet 
