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being again put into a cool house as the shoot ripened. Here 

 it did not remain long before it made further progress, and 

 again required the heat of the stove to ripen its third growth. 

 About the end of October a flower-bud was formed, when 

 water was gradually withheld until it was moderately dry at 

 the roots, and the plant was removed to a cool greenhouse for 

 the entire winter. About the third week in February, 1853, 

 it was placed in the stove, and began to show color on the 

 16th of this month. When the flowers first appeared they 

 were of a greenisli color, which gradually changed into a 

 yellow, which also has died away, until it is of the color of 

 the flower sent, and I have no doubt, but, ere the flower 

 drops, it will be nearly white, (as represented in our plate.) I 

 may also state, that the plant has never been exposed out of 

 doors ; had it been so, the rusty color on the upper surface of 

 the leaf would very likely have been removed. The bark on 

 the first shoot or growth is of a brown color ; but the other 

 two growths are yet green, as shown in the sketch." 



This, certainly, is a superb species, and well Avorthy of a 

 place in every choice collection. Its clusters of large white 

 flowers are in themselves enough to render it one of the most 

 beautiful of Rhododendrons, . but when to these are added 

 fragrance it becomes doubly beautiful. The umbels contain 

 from three to five flowers, very large, each flower four and 

 a half inches long, and four and a half across the mouth, sub- 

 campanulate. The color is changeable, perhaps pure white 

 in the normal state ; but the flower bud is described as green- 

 ish ; the flower, when open, yellow, gradually deepening to 

 pale orange ; which latter color fades, leaving the corolla 

 almost a pure white. In its native country it is often tinged 

 with rose. 



It is a native of East Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhotan, at eleva- 

 tions of from 6000 to 9000 feet, in humid forests. {Bot. 

 Mag. J June.) 



