RHODODENDRON. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. RHODODENDRON. 803 



widened by the use of Rs. Fortunei, 

 Aucklandi, Thomsoni, and others, and 

 many of the most remarkable of recent 

 gains have come from this infusion of 

 new blood. Some of these hybrids are 

 from the crossing of wild species, and 

 others are of mixed parentage crossing 

 of a species with one of the hybrid gar- 

 den varieties. Among the best of these 

 plants are: Thomsoni hybrids: Ascot 



cherrimum, and Russellianum. Others 

 are named Mrs. Henry Shilson, Harry 

 Mangles, Rose Queen, Pride of Penjer- 

 rick, Glory of Penjerrick, and Gertrude 

 Jekyl. Though hardy in all that con- 

 cerns growth, some of these fine plants 

 bloom too early for the open air, losing 

 their flowers by frost before they can ex- 

 pand. Others are fully hardy, but we 

 need to know more about most of these 



t Castlewellan, 



Brilliant, Luscombei, and Luscombei 

 splendens. Fortunei Jiybrids : Duchess 

 of York, H. M. Ardenne, George Thisel- 

 ton Dyer, Mrs. Thiselton Dyer, Francis 

 Thiselton Dyer, Harrisi, etc. Aucklandi 

 hybrids : Kewense, Pink Pearl, White 

 Pearl, Manglesi, Coombe Royal, Beauty 

 of Tremough, Gauntletti, Dawn, Beauty 

 of Littleworth, etc. Ciliatum hybrids : 

 Praecox, Rosy Bell. Arborettm hybrids : 

 Duke of Cornwall, and the old series 

 Altaclerense, Nobleanum, venustum, pul- 



kinds before planting them in the flower- 

 garden. Most of them are fully described 

 in Flora and Sylva, Vol. III., p. 38. 

 A correspondent in the south of Ire- 

 land, in Fermoy, sends to The Garden 

 the following account of the kinds he has 

 found to do well there quite hardy with- 

 out protection and also of his failures : 

 " As I have taken much pleasure in 

 cultivating and hybridising Rhododen- 

 drons for about twenty-five years, espe- 

 cially with a view to acclimatise those of 

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