46 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 



a mild winter, and rarely excessive sunshine in summer, 

 characteristic of this part of Cornwall, are ideal conditions 

 for these Rhododendrons. Many of them seed freely, and 

 the seedlings germinate in the shade of their parents. 

 There one may see R. arboreum, R. Falconeri, R. barba- 

 tum, R. campanulatum, R. grande, R. Thomsonii, R. Griffithi- 

 anum, R. Maddenii, R. campylocarpum, R. cinnabarinum, 

 R. ciliatum, R. triflorum, and R. niveum, not as moderate- 

 sized bushes, as one sees them where they require more or 

 less protection, but as great masses of stems and healthy 

 foliage, and when in flower many of them are canopies 

 of bloom. In other parts of the country there are also fine 

 collections. One of the best is that of Sir Edmund Loder, 

 at Leonardslee, where the conditions are evidently excep- 

 tionally favourable for Rhododendrons, and the proprietor 

 is a most enthusiastic collector and cultivator of them. 

 Close by is Mr. Godman's fine garden at South Lodge, 

 where Rhododendrons are a special feature. The home 

 of the late H. ]. Mangles, who did more than any one to 

 popularise Rhododendrons, and who collected in his garden 

 at Haslemere all the species that he could procure, so that 

 he might study and breed from them, still remains a great 

 Rhododendron garden. A few miles away, at Littleworth, 

 his sister, Miss Mangles, devotes much space to an excep- 

 tionally rich collection, in which many of the Haslemere 

 hybrids can also be seen. Sir John Llewellyn, Bt., Penller- 

 gaer, in South Wales, has one of the largest and best grown 

 collections in England, and Sir John is an authority on all 

 that concerns Rhododendrons. 



In Ireland there are at least two famous collections, one 

 at Killmacurragh, where the late Sir Thomas Acton collected 

 and grew many of the best of the Himalayan species and 



