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In another part of the garden the beautiful 

 rhododendrons from Java are being given a trial ; 

 but possibly, just as the climate is too hot for the 

 hardier varieties, it may prove too cold for those 

 from tropical regions. The variety known as 

 arboreum, with its large heads of deep crimson 

 flowers, appreciates the climate, and has no spring 

 frost to cut its blossoms, which so often mars the 

 beauty of this very early-flowering rhododendron 

 in England, where, for this reason, it only succeeds 

 in sheltered situations. The large white variety, 

 which is commonly called the Himalayan rhodo- 

 dendron, though, more correctly speaking, it is 

 known as Edgewortkii, flourishes here. It was 

 introduced from Sikkim to Europe in 1851. It 

 is a shrub of somewhat straggling growth, with 

 large wide-open pure white flowers, sometimes 

 tinged with yellow or blush; they are produced 

 in small clusters, not more than three or four 

 together, and diffuse an overpoweringly strong 

 scent. 



Among new importations are a collection of 

 Japanese cherry-trees, including the beautiful and 

 graceful weeping variety and some of the double- 

 flowered kinds, also the deep pink plums, which 

 should all prove a success, as in the little flower- 



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