Leucothoe

Leucothoe - Beautiful evergreen shrubs of the Health family, most of them very old garden plants, and common in collections of American plants. There is a family likeness among the kinds, the best known being L. acuminata, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 feet high, with slender arching stems, in early summer wreathed with white bell-shaped pretty flowers. L. axillaris is similar, and so are L. Catesbaei and L. racemosa, all of which are known under the name Andromeda. They are natives of N. America, hardy, thriving in light soil, preferring peat, and are suitable for the margins of groups of American shrubs and for low parts of rock gardens. A newer and very beautiful species is L. Davisiae, introduced a few years since from California, and not so hardy as the others. It makes a neat little evergreen bush 2 or 3 feet high, and has small leaves on slender stems, in May bearing clusters of small white flowers. It is one of the choicest of evergreen hardy shrubs, and thrives with Rhododendrons and Azaleas in peat soil.

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