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to 40 feet high, with stout branches forming a round head, 

 large, Laurel-like, evergreen leaves, and flowers in a compact 

 head with pink pedicels and white corollas spotted with 

 green on the upper segments. They expand in June and 

 July, and are singular in having a young leaf growth by the 

 side of the flower-head. 



Other successful breeders of Rhododendrons in the 

 early part of last century were Messrs. Loddiges, Lee and 

 Kennedy, Standish, the Waterers, Jas. Veitch, and Booth of 

 Hamburg amongst nurserymen, and the Earl of Carnarvon 

 and the Earl of Liverpool amongst amateurs. More recent 

 successful breeders were Messrs. Cunningham, Davis, Noble, 

 Seidel of Dresden, and of course John and Anthony Waterer, 

 I. Anderson Henry, H. J. Mangles, and Luscombe. 



A species which, by its exceptionally good qualities and 

 well-marked characteristics, has been productive of numerous 

 beautiful hybrids, is R. Griffithianum. Introduced from 

 the Sikkim Himalaya in 1849, ^ ft*" 8 * flowered in a nursery 

 at Wandsworth in May 1858. What may be called a 

 Chinese form of it, differing mainly in having usually six 

 or seven flower segments instead of five, was introduced in 

 1859 by Fortune, and named in compliment to him. These 

 two plants, thanks to the efforts of Mangles, 'Luscombe, 

 Anderson Henry, Gill, Sir E. Loder, and a few others, have 

 been the means of enriching gardens with a race of Rhodo- 

 dendrons possessing all the attributes of first-rate, hardy, 

 large-flowered shrubs. 



The first Griffithianum hybrids were raised in the 

 gardens of the Lawson Company at Edinburgh, in or about 

 the year 1869, when Mr. Scott crossed R. Griffithianum and 

 the red-flowered John Waterer, supposed to be a hybrid 

 between R. arboreum and R. catawbiense. In 1879 these 



