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THE FLORIST. 



compact heads of rosy-pink flowers shaded with lilac. This species 

 is said to attain not unficquently a height of 40 feet ! R. Roylii 

 and 11. cinnabarinum are smaller sorts, with brownish-red flowers of 

 apparently less beauty ; but then we come to a variety called R. 

 argenteum, a tree 30 feet high, with leaves 6 inches to I foot long, 

 and from 3 to 5 inches wide, and white flowers 2 to 3 inches long, 

 and nearly as much in diameter ; and finally, R. Falconeri, also a tree 

 30 feet high, with compact heads of white blossoms, and leaves like 

 those of a Magnolia, and ferruginous underneath. Such materials 

 as the above are surely calculated to revolutionise the present race of 

 Rhododendrons, pretty as they already are. 



RUSTIC SEATS. 



The Editor of that popular work the Art-Union Journal has kindly 

 obliged us with the accompanying woodcut of a rustic chair. If 



