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The following list gives a good selection of varieties : — 



Early -Jloivering Section. — Altaclarense (scarlet), Coccineum 

 (scarlet), Albertus (white and pink), Broughtonianum(rose), Blanche 

 Superb (white), Jacksoni (light rose), Campanulatum (creamy 

 white), Desdemona (white, blotched crimson). Sir Walter Scott 

 (pink, shading rose), Nobleanum (various), Marian (pink, dark 

 spots), Victoria (purplish claret). The eariy section are well 

 adapted for forcing for the conservatory. If potted in autumn 

 before severe frost comes, placed in a cold house or pit, and intro- 

 duced to a higher temperature about the end of November, the 

 flowers will begin to open soon after Christmas. In the open 

 border the early-flowering kinds sufier sometimes from the effects 

 of frost, but with the protection of a glass roof the colours come 

 out bright and uninjured in great trusses. There is no class of 

 plants which produce so much blossom on so small a sm-face with 

 so little trouble. 



Medium and late- flowering Varieties. — Atrosanguineum (dark 

 red), Alarm (white, edged with scarlet), Albion (red spotted), 

 Alaric (clarety plum), Amethystinum (blush, tipped puce), Blan- 

 dyanum (rosy crimson), Black Prince (very dark), Beauty of 

 Surrey (rose spotted), Delicatissima (pale pink, fading to white), 

 lago (rosy crimson). Comet (scarlet), Faust (rosy lilac), Everes- 

 tianum (rosy lilac), Hugh Fraser (purple), Ne Plus Ultra (purple, 

 light centre), Eari of Eosslyn (claret), Elfrida (rosy crimson), 

 Fleur de Marie (rosy crimson and white), Hannibal (bright rose). 

 Sir Charles Napier (rose), Helen Waterer (white and crimson), 

 Hogarth (rosy crimson), John Waterer (glowing crimson). Lady 

 Armstrong (pale rose), Stamfordianum (claret), Minnie (white and 

 chocolate), Mrs. Staudish (white, brown spots), Schiller (purple), 

 Lady Dorothy Neville (purple), Perspicuum (pure white). Lord 

 Clyde (crimson). Lord John Russell (pale rose), Maculatum (light 

 blush, orange spots), Standish's Perfecrion (pale peach), Old Port 

 (rich plum), Paxtoni (rose). Prince Albert (deep crimson). Prince 

 Camille de Rohan (white and rose), Princess Mary of Cambridge 

 (white and rose), Titian (rosy scarlet), Zuleika (white and rosy 

 pink). 



Besides the beauty and grandem' of its blossoms, the Rhodo- 

 dendron, as an evergreen shrub, has few equals. To see it 

 growing in the southern and western counties in the utmost luxuri- 

 ance, 20 feet high or more, with the regidarity, exactness, and 

 refinement of growth which is possessed in the same degree by 

 no other shrub, is a sight not likely to be forgotten. All things 

 are great or little by comparison, but to see a hillside clothed with 

 Rhododendrons at any season of the year is a pleasing sight. 



