RHODODENDRON. THE ENGLISH FLOWER GARDEN. RHODODENDRON. 763 



'resident van den Hecke. 

 'rince Camille de Rohan. 

 'rincess ChristianA 

 'rincess Mary ofVCam- 

 bridge. * 



Lady Clermont. 



Lady Dorothy Neville. 



Lady Eleanor Cathcart. 



Lady Falmouth. 



Lady Francis Crossley. 



Lady Grey Egerton. 



Lady Godiva. 



Lady Olive Guinness. 



Lady Tankerville. 



Lalla Rookh. 



Limbatum. 



Lord John Russell. 



Lord Palmerston. 



Lucidum. 



Madame Carvalho. 



Marchioness of Lans- 



downe. 

 Marie Stuart. 

 Martin Hope Sutton. 

 Mason's White Seedling. 

 Maximum. 

 Maximum album. 

 Maximum Wellsianum. 

 Maxwell T. Masters. 

 Melton. 

 Memoir. 

 Meteor. 



Michael Waterer. 

 Minerva. 

 Minnie. 

 Mirandum. 

 Miss Jekyll. 

 Miss Owen. 

 Mont Blanc. 

 Morion. 



Mrs. Arthur Hunnewell. 

 Mrs. Charles Leaf. 

 Mrs. Charles Thorold. 

 Mrs. Fitzgerald. 

 Mrs. Frank Phillips. 

 Mrs. Fredk. Hankey. 

 Mrs. G. H. W. Heneage. 

 Mrs. Harry Ingersoll. 

 Mrs. John Glutton. 

 Mrs. John Kelk. 

 Mrs. John Penn. 

 Mrs. J. P. Lade 

 Mrs. John Walter. 



Mrs. John Waterer. 



Mrs. Mendel. 

 Mrs. Milner. 

 Mrs. R. S. Holford. 



Mrs. Russell Sturgis. 



Mrs. Shuttleworth. 



Mrs. S. Simpson. 



Mrs. Thomas Agnew. 



Mrs. Thomas Longman 



Mrs. Thomas Wain. 



Mrs. W. Agnew. 



Mrs. William Bovill. 



Neige et Cerise. 



Nero. 



Nigrescens. 



Norma. 



Notabile. 



RHODODENDRONS GROUPED FOR 

 EFFECT OF COLOUR. Reds, rose-colours, 

 and pinks with a few whites, viz. Reds 

 James Marshall Brooks, John Waterer, 

 Atro-sanguineum, Alexander Adie, Baron 

 Schrceder. Rose and rosy-pinks Mrs. 

 Penn, Ingrami, Cynthia, Bianchi, Fair 

 Rosamund. Whites Mrs. John Glutton, 

 Minnie, Pictum, Fair Helen, Madame 

 Carvalho. Rhododendrons of salmon-red 

 colour are best kept separate from others ; 

 of these, good colourings are Lady 

 Eleanor Cathcart and Mrs. R. S. Holford. 

 Purples must be kept away from reds, but 

 group well with any whites ; some of the 

 best for colour are Everestianum, Album 



Novelty. 



Odoratum. 



Old Port. 



Onslowianum. 



Othello. 



Paradox. 



Perfection. 



Perspicuum. 



Pictum. 



Picturatum. 



President van den Hecke. 



Prji 



Princess Chi 



Pr 



bridge. 

 Punctatum. 

 Purpureum elegans. 

 Purpureum grandiflorum. 

 Purity. 



Ralph Sanders. 

 Raphael. 

 Rosabel. 

 Roseum elegans. 

 Roseum pictum. 

 R. S. Field. 

 Sappho. 

 Scipio. 

 Sefton. 

 Seraph. 



Sherwoodianum. 

 Sigismund Rucker. 

 Silvio. 



Sir Charles Napier. 

 Sir Isaac Newton. 

 Sir James Clark. 

 Sir Robert Peel. 

 Sir Thomas Sebright. 

 Sir William Armstrong. 

 Snowflake. 



Standard of Flanders. 

 St. Simon. 

 St. Blaise. 

 Stella. 

 Sultana. 

 Sunray. 

 Surprise. 

 Sydney Herbert. 

 Sylph. 



The Cardinal. 

 The Moor. 

 The Queen. 

 The Warrior. 

 Titian. 

 Torlonianum, a hybrid, 



between Azalea and 



Rhododendron. 

 Towardii. 

 Vandyck. 

 Vauban. 

 Verschaffeltii. 

 Vestal. 

 Victoria. 

 Vivian Grey. 

 William Austin. 



elegans fastuosum, Cyaneum, Lady Nor- 

 manton, Reine Hortense, Lucifer. 



DWARF KINDS. There are some dwarf 

 kinds which may be associated with alpine 

 plants in the rock-garden indeed, some 

 are but a span high. One of the prettiest 

 of these is R. Chamaecistus, which has tiny 

 leaves, and in early summer exquisite 

 purple flowers, of the same size as those of 

 Kalmia latifolia. It is rarely seen in good 

 health in gardens, and is best in limestone 

 fissures, filled with peat, loam, and sand 

 mixed in about equal proportions. A 

 native of calcareous rocks in the Tyrol, 

 and one of the most precious of dwarf 

 rock-shrubs. The well-known R. ferru- 

 gineum and R. hirsutum both bear the 

 name of alpine Rose, and often terminate 

 the woody vegetation on the great 

 mountain chains of Europe. They are 

 easily obtained from nurseries, and are 

 well suited for the large rock-garden, 

 where they attain, in deep peat soil, a 

 height of about 18 in. R. Wilsonianum, 

 R. myrtifolium, R. amcenum, R. hybrid- 

 urn, R. dauricum-atrovirens, R. Govenia- 

 num, R. odoratum, and R. Torlonianum 

 are dwarf kinds, which may be used in 

 the rock-garden the last two being sweet- 

 scented. They should not be planted near 

 minute alpine plants. 



INDIAN RHODODENDRONS IN SOUTH- 

 ERN ENGLAND. The following is an 

 abstract from The Garden of a paper by 

 Mr. W. J. Bean, of the Royal gardens at 

 Kew, of the Indian Rhododendrons in 

 the London district, and therefore of in- 

 terest to growers in the home counties, 

 less favoured than many districts for the 

 growth of these fine shrubs. 



The altitudes at which these grow range 

 between 4,000 ft. and 14,000 ft., but it is 

 at heights of 10,000 ft. and upwards that 

 the genus is most abundantly represented. 

 Above 12,000 ft. Sir J. Hooker says that 

 three-fourths of the whole vegetation con- 

 sists of Rhododendrons. The mean tem- 

 perature at Darjeeling (in which neigh- 

 bourhood most of the species are found) 

 does not widely differ from that of London, 

 but the extremes of heat and cold are 

 much greater here than there, and it is 

 only a few that can be said to thrive out 

 of doors really well and flower in the 

 London district, although many can re- 

 main healthy in foliage when grown in well- 

 sheltered spots. The greatest successes 

 with Himalayan Rhododendrons in the 

 British Isles have been obtained near the 

 sea in the south and south-western coun- 

 ties, where the temperature is equable 

 and moist. The districts in which they 

 are grown to greatest perfection are near 



