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shrub ; 4 feet ; flowers salmon or copper-color, in February ; 

 Java; 1847. R. Ponticujn {Von\Ac); hardy evergreen shrub; 6 

 feet ; flowers purple, in May ; Gibraltar ; 1 763. This has 

 sported into numerous varieties of various colors. 



Almost all the species of Rhododendron are worth plant- 

 ing out doors, especially such of the Indian ones as ulti- 

 mately prove hardy ; the tenderer sorts being the best of all 

 plants, along with Camellias, for cold conservatories. The 

 following are fine varieties, hardy enough to withstand a New 

 England winter : Archimedes, album elegans, album gratidi- 

 floru?7i^ atrosanguitieum, Barclaya7ium, BlandyaJium, Bray- 

 aniim, Chancellor, Columbus, delicatissimum. Due de Brabant, 

 jEverestianum^ gigantcum, Lcopardii, lucidum. Marc A?itony, 

 Nero, ornatum, Pardoleton, pictum, perspicuum, purpureu7Ji 

 elegans and grandifloru7n, roseum elegans, graJidiflorum, pictum 

 and superbum, Sherwoodianum, Victoria. 



Rhubarb. See Rheum. 



Rhus. Siunach. [Anacardiacese.] Hardy deciduous 

 shrubs. Light loam. Increased by seeds, layers, or cut- 

 tings. 



Ornamental Shrubs. R. copalliita, R. coriaria, R. Cotinus, 

 R. typhina. 



RiBES. CurraJit. [Grossulariaceae.] An extensive fami- 

 ly of hardy shrubs, well suited for shrubberies. The very 

 best, which grows freely in ordinary garden soil, is R. san- 

 ^uineum, a deciduous plant, which about May is decorated 

 with drooping bunches of scarlet blossoms. Of this there 

 is a very handsome double-flowered variety, and another in 

 which the blossoms are white. They are propagated with- 

 out difficulty either by layers or by cuttings. 



R. aureum prcEcox (early) ; hardy shrub ; 4 feet ; flowers yel- 

 low, in March ; North America ; 1812. R. saiigiiineuni (bloody) • 

 hardy shrub ; 4 feet ; flowers red or white, single or double, in 



