[Plate 16.] 
THE WHITE CUNNINGHAM RHODODENDRON. 
(RHODODENDRON CINNAMOMEUM ; VAR. CUNNINGHAM!.) 
A hardy evergreen hybrid Shrub. B. cinnamomeum g, maximum <?. 
poR the figure of this noble shrub we are indebted to Mr. George Cunningham, of the Nursery, 
Liverpool. It is probably the best hybrid Rhododendron yet raised, not possessing, indeed, the 
rich colours of the crimson mules, but quite as valuable to the cultivator on account of its Lee 
pure white spotted blossoms. The 
in liis correspondence : 
White Maximum 
the foliage. It is very remarkable for its strong ribbed leaf and brown under-surface. The white 
of the flower is very pure, and the dark purple spots contrast with it very beautifully. It is quite 
hardy; its maternal parent being the latest and hardiest of all our Rhododendrons, and Cinnamomeum, 
the father, will stand any severity of an English -*»*— - T ■-* - * — l 
spring, it is liable to be cut by our late frosts. 
winter 
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The object which I had in view in hybridising R. cinnamomeum with a pure White 
colour 
period of flowering from the latter. In 
India 
colour also of those between the true Scarlet Arboreum 
is diluted, and that between them and Cinnamomeum, or the White Arboreum, is often of a muddy 
pink, turning, as the flower gets old, into a dirty white. In the one I have sent you to figure, 
these objects have been obtained — the white colour has been preserved in all its purity, and a perfect 
hardiness also acquired. None of my plants of it have had any protection/ 1 
between the two parents. To the shape of the 
cinnamon Tree Rhododendron they add the convexity of R. maximum ; and the downy surface of 
the under-side is just half-way between the two. In both the mule and its 9 parent, the hairiness 
consists of numerous much-entangled tubes, blunt, transparent, flat, thin-sided, and very often 
arranged in a starry manner. They are evidently the beginning of the raments (?) of Bejaria, 
intermediate 
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