firft fupplied with this plant from Gibraltar, and the one here 
figured, now become fo extremely common, has been fince 
-raifed from feeds imported from Afia, we:know not: but our 
plant certainly agrees in every refpeét with the defcription of | 
Touxrnerort, and-differs from that of Paras, not only in 
having the broadeft lacinia of the corolla {potted with orange 
colour, but alfo in having all the laciniz obtufe, -which are 
both figured and defcribed by him as acute. 
_ Tournsrort fuppofed that the narcotic deleterious honey 
familiar to the inhabitants of Georgia and known to the an- 
cients, being particularly mentioned both by Droscoripes 
and Piiny, owed its origin to the flowers of the RuopopEN- 
DRON powticum; but later travellers have, with more proba- 
bility, attributed this quality to the honey gathered from the 
flowers of Azatea pontica, fee No. 443 of this work. 
A middling-fized Rhododendron; which had been fomewhat 
forced, flanding in a very light airy bow-window facing the 
North, produced a large drop of very pellucid ne€tar at the 
bafe of the broadeft fegment of each corolla: as the flower 
_ decayed, this drop moftly cryftallized, a number of thefe cryftals 
was colleéted, five of which weighed a grain; they were very 
tranfparent, refembling in appearance and’ tafte the pureft 
_ white fugar-candy : the fame has been obferved in fome degree, 
but not nearly to the fame extent, on fome other trees fimilarly 
fitiated’** ese 03 3 . | 
Is a hardy evergreen, but apt to be injured by late froftss 
loves a moift foil and fhady fituation ; béars forcing remarkably 
well, and in this ftate great numbers have of late years been 
brought to the London markets, to ornament our houfes in 
the Spring. Introduced about the year 1763.. May be pro- 
pagated by layers, whichis the moft expeditious mode, of 
having large trees, but can be eafily raifed from feed, and fuch. 
_ plants are much the handfomeit, and will flower in three or 
four years. ; 
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