TREES AND SHRUBS EVERGREEN 



EHODODENDEON X MANGLESII, Hort. 



Veitchs' Catlg. of Trees and Shrubs, 1885, p. 11 ; Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. xxiv. p. 48, 

 fig. ; The Garden, 1890, vol. xxxviii. p. 225, fig. 



A beautiful hybrid obtained at Coombe from the Himalayan Ehodo- 

 dendron Aucklandii and a garden form of E. catawbiense known as album 

 grandiflorum. 



The flowers of the hybrid fully 4 in. in diameter, are of the purest 

 white, with the exception of a few red spots on the upper segment of the 

 corolla. The truss large and full-flowered, composed of from ten to 

 fifteen blooms, resembles in this respect the American species, whilst in 

 the foliage and calyx, and the size and quality of the flower the influence 

 of E. Auckland! may be traced. 



It was dedicated to the memory of J. H. Mangles, Esq., of Haslemere 

 under whose care this genus was so very greatly improved. 



EHODODENDEON MICEANTHUM, Turcz. 



Jour. R.H.S. 1903, vol. xxviii. p. 64. 



This Ehododendron, a native of Central China, on cliffs north of the 

 Yangtsze at elevations of more than 5,000 ft., forms a bush from 4 to 

 20 ft. high, and produces in great abundance small white flowers in erect 

 racemes. The leaves small, are covered on the under surface with 

 ferruginous scales. Plants raised from seed collected by Wilson are 

 growing at Coombe Wood, and the species first flowered in this country 

 at Caerhays Castle, Cornwall, in the spring of 1905. 



EHODODENDEON OCCIDENTALS, A. Gray. 



Syns. Azalea occidentals, Torr. & Gr. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 5005. 



Eaised from seed sent from California by William Lobb, and much 

 resembling the Azalea calendulacea of Eastern America, but differing 

 in flowers white striped with pink on the exterior of the perianth, with 

 a yellow blotch on the standard petal. In A. calendulacea the corolla 

 is from yellow to orange changing to flame colour. 



EHODODENDEON EACEMOSUM, Franch. 



Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. xii. p. 62 ; The Garden, 1892, vol. xlii. p. 320, col. pi. ; Bot. Mag. 



t. 7301. 



A charming dwarf-growing species of Ehododendron raised from seed 

 sent from the Jardin des Plantes, Paris, collected in Yunnan, Western 

 China, by Pere Delavay. 



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