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AZALEA* calendulacea ; var. subcuprea. 

 Copper-coloured Highclere Azalea. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. Erice^e Juss. {Introduction to the natural system of botany, 

 p. 182.) 



AZALEA.— Suprd, vol. 2. fol. 120. 



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

 sutis, floribus amplis non viscosis, calycis dentibus oblongis, corolla 

 tube hirsuto laciniis breviore. — Suprd,fol. 145, with the synonyms. 



Var. subcuprea. Gowen in litt. 



This and the following are a part of the result of some 

 extensive experiments instituted at Highclere, the seat of 

 the Earl of Caernarvon, for the purpose of improving the 

 colours of the American Azaleas by cross impregnation. 

 With what perfect success this attempt has been rewarded 

 will be apparent from an inspection of these figures, and 

 of some others that will appear hereafter, which have been 

 selected from a very considerable number of equally striking- 

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

 mixture has been made, has favoured us with the following 

 particulars of these experiments, which are already so 

 important to Horticulture, and which may also throw light 

 upon some physiological questions in which the world is 

 much interested, but which cannot be satisfactorily settled 

 without multiplied observations, conducted with the utmost 

 precision. 



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

 obtained from a variety of Azalea nudiflora, called in the 



* From u^xxUi;, dry ; either in allusion to the places where the species 

 grow, or to the dry brittle nature of their branches. 



