40 AZALEA INDICA; OR, CHINESE AZALEA, 
“Thirdly. From deep-coloured yellow selfs, hybridized with the 
highest coloured white-ground. picotees, of the several classes of red; 
purple, and rose, using the pollen from those flowers which are parti- 
cularly distinguished by a steady style of marking, and not intermingling 
light:and heavy edged. Ne fg 
‘Fourthly. From yellow picotees, hybridized as in No. 3. 
“The following white-ground varieties are well calculated for the 
purpose of hybridizing, as they are all of first-rate excellence :— 
Headley’s King James and Venus; May’s Portia, Sebastian, and: 
Juliet ; Marris’s Prince of Wales and Prince Albert ; Ely’s Emperor. 
and. Mrs. Lilly; Norman’s Beauty; Matthew’s Enchantress; Cox’s 
Regina ; Wood’s Princess Alice; Gatliff’s Regina; and Mrs. Bevan.” 
And it would further the object if some one would give a descriptive 
list of yellow picotees, setting forth their particular properties. We 
shall be glad to be favoured with such a list for our next Number. 
AZALEA INDICA; OR, CHINESE AZALEA. 
An excellent weekly contributor to the Gardeners’ Chronicle states, 
that this fine tribe of plants flourishes admirably under the following 
method of cultivation :— 
Compost.—Six parts of heath mould, in which there is a large 
portion of vegetable matter, one part of sandy loam, and one of the 
usual white sand. Great care must be taken in potting to have all the 
fine roots spread outwards and not in masses together, but be disposed 
as equally around as possible, and thus absorb more of the matters 
necessary for vigorous growth. A liberal drainage must be given, 
more to those kinds which are semi-evergreens than such as are 
deciduous. 
In its native country, at the time of growth, the Azalea is stimulated 
by a high temperature, and with us it must then have a powerful heat, 
and will only obtain a full development but with plenty of sun anda 
moist atmosphere, promoted by syringing morning and evening. When 
the growth is completed the heat must be gradually lowered, more air 
given, and the plants soon be taken into a cool pit or greenhouse, 
where they. must remain a time to ripen their wood, and by the middle 
of July they may be taken out and placed on a east or west-aspected 
border, where they will be sheltered from cold winds and the dropping 
of trees. At the end of September the flower-buds will generally be 
well formed, then remove them into the greenhouse or vinery, giving 
them air only when mild and dry. Water must be applied with care 
in winter, the evergreen requiring more than the deciduous kinds, 
More air and water will be necessary as the plants approach the bloom- 
ing period, usually from February. The plants commence growing as 
soon as the blooming is over, then is the time to repot, and if seed is 
not required, cut off the decayed blooming heads in order to give all 
possible vigour to the shoots, which are to produce the bloom of the 
following year. The best time to put cuttings in for propagation 
is when the parent plants are in vigorous growth, for the cuttings 
