from which arise a profusion of slender, hair-like crimson stalks, 
each bearing a snowy-white bell.” 
Andromeda tetracjona is a native of North America, having 
bright-green quadrangular shoots, six to eighteen inches high; 
it bears numerous white bell-shaped flowers, and it continues 
for a long period to send forth fresh bloom-buds down the 
stem. We were informed by the foreman at Giasnevin, that 
he had found that the only way to propagate it was by layer¬ 
ing, as cuttings invariably failed A 
* The following note is from Dr. Moore:—“ The beautiful Ericaceous 
plant you are to figure is a native of the Himalayas, where it grows at a 
great elevation on the mountains at Grossain-Than, Kamaon, and also in 
Chinese Tartary. It is Andromeda fostigiata, Wallich, and Andromeda cupres- 
siformis, of the same author ; Cassiope fastigiata, Don. The only plant known 
to have yet been raised in Europe was grown in this garden from seeds sent 
hither by the late Major Madden, who collected them at an elevation of 
eleven thousand feet above sea-level, near 'Kamaon. The few plants which 
have got about were from the one raised here. It is quite hardy in Ireland, 
where it grows in ordinary peat-mould without protection, and flowers pro¬ 
fusely every spring. The blossoms continue from three to four weeks, and 
have a very sweet perfume.” 
