“of a 
Ryopora CANADENSIS. CANADIAN 
RHODORA. _ 
Clafs and Order. 
 Decanpria Monoeynia, 
Generic Charaéer. | 
Cal. 5-dentatus, Cor. 3-petala. Stam. declinata. Capf. 5-locularis, 
Specific Charaéer and Synonyms. 
RHODORA canadenfis. Linn. Sp. Pl. 561. Ait. Kew. . 2. 
.  p. 66. L’Herit. Stirp. nov. t. 68. Chamarbodo- 
dendros. Dubam. Sem. app. 10. t.27.f. 2. 
RHODODENDRUM Rbodora, corollis tripetalis. Linn, Syj 
Nat, ed. 13. Gmel. p. 694. 
The Canadian Rhodora is a hardy deciduous American 
fhrub, of low growth, and confiderable beauty, and the more | 
defirable from the earlinefs of its flowering, which occurs be- 
fore the foliage is fully expanded ; the bloffoms are very liable 
to be injured by the cutting eafterly winds which fometimes 
prevail in April, the ufual time of their appearance; it bears 
gentle forcing remarkably well, and thus may be had ta flower — 
in great perfeétion, | ee . 
It requires to be planted in light bog earth, in which itis 
freely propagated by layers, Ba = es 
“ Is a native of North-America, and was introduced in 1767s : e 
_ by Sir Joserpu Banks, Bart. ee 
