The figure and defcription here given were taken from a plant which. 
flowered by means of artificial heat, in the {pring of 1798, at Mr. 
Warson’s, Nurferyman, Iflington, and which had been introduced 
the fame year, by Mr. AnrHony Hove, of Warfaw. 
Asan hardy ornamental fhrub, it bids fair to prove an acquifition truly 
valuable, its flowers, produced in the months of June and July, being 
highly ornamental as well as fragrant. ae 
We have the beft authority for regarding this plant as the Chame- 
rhodendras Pontica of TOURNEFORT, it agrees with his own fpecimens 
in Sir JoszepH Banks's Herbarium, it accords alfo with his defcrip- 
tion, and figures, more efpecially of thofe flowers which are of their 
_ natural fize ; nor have we any: doubts of its. being the Azalea Pontica of 
Prof. PALLAS, figured in the Flor. Rofficay {ince it correfponds generally 
with his defeription, though not in all points with his figure, which. 
bears evident marks of inaccuracy, the ftigma, for inftance, is repre- 
fented as trifid. os 
Tournerort found this plant on the eaftern fide of the Black Sea, 
Mr. Hove on the north fide near Oczakow, and elfewhere ; Profeffor a 
PAtLas om Mount Caucafus. | 
_ As yet. there has been, no,opportunity of eee beft means of 
propagating this new denizen, but there is every reafon, to fuppofe that 
it will fueceed with, the treatment beftowed on the other, Aza/lea’s, - 
Prof. PALLAS, relates that the honey of bees frequenting the flowers 
of this plant is fuppofed to be narcotic, and that goats, kine, and 
fheep on eating its leaves have been poifoned thereby. 
By permiffion and with the approbation of Mr. Antuony Hove, 
the following extracts from his journal are here inferted. 
«« June g, 1796, found a few of this fpecies of Azalea on. the river 
“< Dnuieper in {wampy ground, four feet high, beginning to blow,, 
“* called here the, ftupifying fhrub, and confidered, by fome as highly — 
** efficacious in curing the venereal difeafe: estas og d 
«© June 20, found this fpecies on the river Dniefter, on the eftate of © 
“; Count Stanisnaus Sczesny Porockxt, about fixteen Enelifh | 
“« miles from the town of Mohilow, in peat earth, from four to. twenty- 
‘« feet high; regarded. by the common. people as intoxicating, and 
*¢ ufed in the cure of various difeafes. 3 : 
“ July, 4, near Oczakow, found thoufands of thefe plants fully — 
*« blown, in a marfh, every fpring-tide overflown by the. fea; found, 
“¢ there alfo, a Fartarian tiers who lived entirely by the profits — 
“© arifing. from the honey. which the bees extracted from the flowers — 
“© of this plant, fold: to Coitfianidiople and: other: parts of Turkey for 
“« medicinal ufes. | . 
*€ July_15,, arrived at Trebizond, found. a, valley about. ten, Englify, — 
“« miles from the fea covered with thefe plants,” ‘ 
On cultivation, Mr. Hove relates that he found the 4zalea’s from — 
Trebizond much ‘more tender than thofe from the borders of the 
Dnieper and: the Dniefter, and was therefore inclined to regardthem’ 
as {trong varicties. if not diftinc fpecies, oe wistine 6 se 
- Fhe leaves, when, fully. expanded, are in. fize: and; figure like: thofe. 
— on the plate, hairy on both fides, and terminating in ajvery remarkable 
blunt mucro,or. point, which has. not been noticed, either by, thofe. wha 
have defcribed or figured the plant as it deferves, for it appears 
form: a very ftrong character. we CURE, OCS OS Taare 
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