THE RHODODENDRON 109 



tender rose, it is a bright, true child of high 

 altitudes. 



Nor should the Rhododendron be forgotten as a 

 subject for our gardens. When raised from layers 

 or from seed, it takes quite kindly to our climate. 

 Indeed, the plants at " Floraire," M. Henry Corre- 

 von's charming garden near Geneva, come from 

 England — a fact that will sound much in line 

 with that of living at Brighton and receiving one's 

 fish from London ! This anomaly, in the case of 

 the Rhododendron, is due to the great difficulty of 

 acclimatising the plant to the Swiss plains. When, 

 however, it has once been acclimatised in England 

 it will transplant to Switzerland with the greatest 

 success. I cannot remember ever to have seen in 

 Switzerland a successfully transplanted native plant 

 of Rhododendron, even though, as is frequently the 

 case around mountain hotels, it has been a question 

 of moving it only some few yards from where it was 

 growing wild. These wild plants have a strong 

 objection to being tamed. But in England's humid 

 climate it is quite easy to cultivate, and if fields are 

 to be added to our rockworks the Rhododendron 

 must have a place in them — a place around the 

 solitary rocks, a place with the Daphne and the 

 shrubby Honeysuckles. 



