180 THE FOREST TREE CULTURIST. 
ous; and the poor people of the regions where the Pontic 
Rhododendron was plentiful were much perplexed on the 
account of their tribute of honey being refused by the 
Roman government. The prejudice against this plant 
was prevalent as late as 1568, for Dr. Turner says that he 
did not wish it introduced into England, for although 
beautiful without, that within it was a ravenous wolf and 
a murderer. But the dreadful character given it did not 
prevent its introduction, and at the present time English 
gardens derive their greatest beauty from their groups of 
Rhododendrons. No garden is complete, nay, scarcely 
beautiful, without a few plants at least of this splendid 
evergreen shrub, 
Our indigenous species are equally as beautiful as those 
from foreign countries, and they can be had from the 
woods and fields of many portions of the Northern and 
Southern States. The same care is requisite in transplant- 
ing them as with the Kalmia, and no more. They are 
also easily grown from the seed, which ripens in autumn. 
Sow in frames the same as with other evergreens. Nur- 
serymen propagate them in various ways, such as cuttings, 
layers, grafting the scarce varieties on the more common, 
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RHODODENDRON MAxIMUM ( Great Laurel).—Leaves obo- 
vate oblong, acute, smooth on both sides, deep green, six 
to ten inches long; flowers in terminal clusters, white or 
pale rose color, marked with greenish yellow, slightly 
spotted with red; shrubs six to twenty feet high; New 
England to Georgia, but more common along the banks 
of streams in Western New Jersey and Pennsylvania. 
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