1461 



AZALEA* nuditlora ; var. scintillans. 

 Sparkling Azalea. 



PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 



Nat. ord. EuiCE* Juss. {Introduction to the natural system o/Botamj, 

 p. 18'2.) 



AZALEA.—Suprc), vol. 2. fol. 120. 



Garden Variety. 



" Tliis Azalea was raised at Hii^hclere in the same year 

 with those ah-eady figured in previous parts of this work, 

 and is a seedling from Azalea coccinea major, impregnated 

 by the pollen of Azalea pontica. The figure gives but an 

 madequate notion of its beauty, partly owing to tlie brilliant 

 efiect of the surface of the petals, which cannot be repre- 

 sented, and also in consequence of the beauty of the speci- 

 men having been impaired by the unprecedented frost of 

 last spring, which injured the whole inflorescence. When 

 in vigour, the umbel is double the size." 



Our drawing was made from specimens obligingly com- 

 municated by the Earl of Caernarvon. We are indebted 

 to Mr. Gowen for the preceding notes about it. 



J. L. 



* See fol. 1366. 



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