Himalayan grows to a large size. One cut down some years ago near 



Rhodo Falmouth was ninety feet in height. 



dendrons ^ e Australian and New Zealand Leptospermums are 



very generally grown, and in certain cases have assumed almost 

 tree -like proportions, being twenty to twenty-five feet in height. 

 The species usually met with are L. baccatum, L. bullatum, and 

 L. scoparium. They are pretty objects in the early summer, 

 when thickly covered with small white flowers about half an 

 inch across. 



Himalayan Rhododendrons are grown on a larger scale 

 than they are in any other portion of these islands, and provide 

 a rich display of flower through many months of the year, 

 commencing with R. nobleanum venustum in November, and 

 ending with R. Nuttalli and R. Dalboustae early in June. 

 The finest collection of these glorious flowering shrubs in the 

 county is to be seen at Tremough. During his wanderings in 

 the Himalayas Sir Joseph Hooker sent seeds that he had 

 collected to the owner of that property, which were successfully 

 raised, and from that day to the present time the culture of 

 Rhododendrons has been assiduously followed at Tremough, 

 where many hybrids of great beauty have been raised. Some 

 of the specimens of R. arbor eum are fully thirty feet in height, 

 with a trunk girth of over four feet. A visit to Tremough 

 during the month of April, when many of the Rhododendrons 

 are at their best, will well repay the flower-lover. At Tre- 

 gothnan there are several superb specimens. Four years ago 

 a symmetrical example of R. Falconer i, furnished with foliage 

 to the very ground, was twenty-two feet in height and thirty 

 feet through. One year it bore over two thousand flower- 

 trusses. This is probably the finest specimen in the United 



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