SECOND WEEK IN APRIL 



apricot, blotched with orange ; Peter Koster, deep orange ; 

 Alma Tadema is in pale pink ; and Madame Anthony 

 Koster in shades of apricot and salmon-pink, a very richly 

 tinted flower. These are hybrids of Azalea mollis X sinensis ; 

 the taller hybrids produced by A. mollis X pontica are in 

 some cases inclined to majenta in tint, but Monsieur Desbois, 

 in carmine, Dulcinee, in orange-red, and Frere Orban, in 

 creamy white, are all thoroughly free from this defect. The 

 Japanese azalea (mollis) is itself quite hardy, and semi- 

 aquatic, so that it makes a grand show when planted in a 

 moist position ; it is, however, better to regulate the supply 

 of water for these plants in winter by burning a hole in the 

 wood (with a red-hot poker), which can be filled with a cork. 



