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able pale-rose tints sprinkled with yellowish or reddish dots. It is 

 the most showy of our native flowering shrubs and is one of the 

 most beautiful of all native flowers. It is often cultivated as an 

 ornamental plant, but the stock in these cases is usually obtained 

 through nurserymen from the Alleghany mountains, where it is 

 much more abundant. It deserves much wider use than has been 

 made of it as yet in Vermont. 



PINK AZALEA. Rhododendron cancsccns (Mx.) G. Don. 



This shrub is more widely distributed in Vermont than is the 

 rhododendron proper, but it is found only occasionally growing 

 in moist, woody banks and along the borders of swamps. It 

 is sometimes called swamp-pink, June pink, honeysuckle, or 

 pinxter-flower, the first of these names being commonest in 



Pink Azalea, X %. 



local usage in Vermont. The name "may-apple" is some- 

 times given it because of the large apple-like galls which are 

 common on the twigs. It is a low spreading shrub rarely more 

 than a few feet in height, with oval, deciduous and more or less 

 hairy leaves. The flowers opening the last of May are pink of 

 varying shades, spreading to an inch and a half or more in width 

 and are decidedly cinnamon scented. They have not the delicacy 



