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truss ; Memoir, white, fine habit ; 

 Mrs Anthony Waterer, a beautiful 

 white ; Mrs Charles Sargent, pink, 

 fine truss ; Mrs George Paul, blush- 

 white, fine truss of perfect shape ; 

 Mrs John Glutton, one of the best 

 whites ; Mrs J. C. Williams, blush 

 spotted, fine compact truss, late ; 

 Mis John Millais, white, yellow eye, 

 reflexed petal ; Mrs J. P. Lade, 

 French -grey, deeper centre ; Mrs 

 Milner, rich crimson, splendid habit ; 

 Mrs P. D. Williams, ivory-white, brown 

 spot ; Mrs R. G. Shaw, light blush, 

 with dark maroon blotch, fine truss ; 

 Mrs R. S. Holford, rich salmon, truss 

 large ; Mrs T. H. Lowinsky, blush-red, 

 spots very showy, late ; Sappho, 

 white, blotched with maroon ; 

 Sigismund Rucker, magenta, richly 

 spotted, distinct ; Snowflake, purest 

 white, fine conical truss, late ; Titian, 

 rosy-scarlet. 



RHODORA (Canadian Rhodora). 

 R. canadensis is an interesting 

 bush, 2 to 4 feet high, allied to the 

 Rhododendron, a native of the swamps 

 of Canada, hardy, and needing a moist 

 light soil, though it prefers peat. In 

 very early spring it has clusters of 

 fragrant rosy-purple flowers before the 

 leaves unfold. 



RHODOTHAMNUS. R, chamacis- 

 tus is a beautiful little alpine bush very 

 rare in gardens and rather difficult to 

 cultivate. It is less than i foot in 

 height, with ovate leaves from a 

 quarter of an inch to half an inch long, 

 thickly clustered on the twigs, the 

 margins set with slender hairs. It 

 flowers towards the end of April and 

 the beginning of May, and produces 

 its blossoms in clusters at the ends of 

 the shoots. From two to four flowers 

 are in the cluster, and each is about 

 1 1 inch in diameter, the free portions 

 of the petals fully expanded. The 

 colour is a pale clear pink with a ring 

 of a deeper shade in the centre. A 

 feature of the flower also is the long 

 stamens. It is by no means rare in a 

 wild state, being found in the Tyrol 

 (often in large patches) as well as in 

 Carniola. In cultivating this plant 

 full exposure of the foliage to sunlight, 

 combined with cool, uniformly moist 

 conditions at the roots, is necessary. 

 It should be planted in a sunny position 

 in a crevice or small pocket between 

 the stones, which keep the roots per- 

 manently moist and protected from 

 the hot sun that the leaves enjoy. 



The compost should consist mainly of 

 good loam, to which a small proportion 

 of peat may be added, and which 

 should be free from calcareous matter. 

 Syn. Rhododendron chamcecistus. 



RHODOTYPOS (White Jew's Mal- 

 low}.- R. Kerrioides is a summer- 

 leafing shrub from Japan, with a 

 growth and foliage recalling the 

 familiar old Jew's Mallow on cottage 

 walls, but with white flowers. It is of 

 slender growth, but makes a vigorous 

 bush when well grown, and is usually 

 5 or 6 feet high, though against a wall 

 it reaches a height of 10 or 12 feet. 

 It flowers in May, and keeps in bloom 

 a considerable time. 



RHUS (Sumach). Low trees, shrubs, 

 or climbers, with an acrid juice, 

 usually hardy, and remarkable for their 

 elegant and picturesque growth, and 

 often brilliantly coloured leaves in 



A' /i us copallina. 



autumn. Such good qualities as they 

 have are rarely shown in our gardens, 

 where they are, indeed, often absent 

 save one or two of the commoner 

 kinds, and these never grouped or 

 shown in any right way, but perhaps 

 half starved in the conventional 

 muddle of the shrubbery. Several 

 kinds are poisonous, and should not 

 be planted near the house, and, if 

 used at all, should be handled with 

 great care, as accidents are frequent. 

 Their poisonous character is well 

 known and feared in their native 

 countries. The Sumachs are not diffi- 

 cult as to soil or cultivation, thriving in 

 ordinary garden soils, and rather 

 enjoying poor and dry soils, some of 

 them being suitable, therefore, for 

 grouping on dry banks where little 



