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AZALEA* calendulacea ; var. subcuprea. 



Copper-coloured Highclere Azalea. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. ■, 



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1R9 \* ^^^' ^^^^^^ ^^^^' {Introduction to the natural system of botany, 

 AZALEA.— Su-prii, vol 2. fol. 120. ^ 



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A. calendulacea, subnudiflora; foliis utrinque pubescentibus : adultis hir- 

 *"J^''' f'oribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla 

 tubo hirsute laciniis breviore.— •S'tiora, /o/. 145, with the synonyms. 



J'ar. subcuprea. Gowen in litt. ' ' , 



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1 his and the following are a part of the result of some 

 tu p®*^^ experiments instituted at Highclere, the seat of 

 ae liarl of Caernarvon, for the purpose of improving the 

 colours of the American Azaleas by cross impregnation, 

 .jf", ^bat perfect success this attempt has been rewarded 

 ^»i be apparent from an inspection of these figures, and 

 01 some others that will aboear hereafter, which have been 



appear 



elected from a very considerable number of equally striki ^ 

 varieties. Mr. Gowen, under whose direction the inter- 

 Diixture has been made, has favoured us with the following 

 particulars of these experiments, which are already so 

 "nportant to Horticulture, and which may also throw light 



pon some physiological questions in which the world is 

 ™uch mterested, but which cannot be satisfactorily settled 

 witliout multiplied observations, conducted with the utmost 



precision 



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Thi 



s was one of those which, it will be seen, were 



obtained from a variety of Azalea nudiflora, called in the 



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From i^xXic?, dry ; eithler in allusion to the places where the species 

 5T0W, or to the dry brittle nature of their branches. 



