402 TRANSACTIONS OF THE 



[Revue Horticole, Paris, Nov. I6th, 1865.] 



Extracts Translated by Henry Meigs. 

 RHODODENDRON UODGSOM.— {Hodgson's Rose Tree.) 



One of the most interesting among the remarkable Rhododen- 

 drons of the Himalaya Mountains. It was first discovered by 

 Dr. Josepli Hooker, who found it growing in all the valleys of 

 Sikkim, of an elevation above the sea of about ten thousand to 

 fourteen thousand feet. He considers it as one of the characte^^ 

 istics of that Alpine region of- the Himalayas. From its high 

 station it pairs with the other Rhododendrons Arboreum Camp- 

 bellise, and is surpassed only by the Anthopogon, Setosum, Eleag- 

 noides, and above all by the R. Nivale, which grows at the height 

 of about nineteen thousand feet above the level of the sea. 



This R. Hodgsoni is a tree of the third rate, growing from 

 thirteen to twenty feet high, it has many stems from one base, 

 which together form enormous bushes, of from forty to seventy 

 feet in diameter, the stems severally as large as a man's thigh and 

 sometimes larger, but not often large enough to square one foot. 

 The wood is white, soft to the touch, close fine grain, very tough, 

 never splits by wet or chyness, is employed by the natives in 

 making handles for tools, bowls, vases, spoons, yokes for beasts of 

 burthen. The flowers are large aud magnificent, pretty nearly 

 hemispherical, and always rose-colored. It will of course stand 

 our winters, and will form a beautiful part in our landscape, and 

 of great utility as a wood. 



[U.S. Patent Office Report, Part 3, 1854.] 



GRASSES. 

 The weight when green and when dry. 



Pounds when dried. 



100 pounds of green White Clover, 29 



do do Red Clover, 25 



do do Herd's grass, (Timothy,) 39 



do do Fresh meadow, 44 



do do English Rowen, (second crop,) 19 



do do Salt grass, 60 



do do Corn stalks, 25 



do do Spinked Oat grass, 50 



do do Red- top, (Herd's grass,) 46 



do do Rliode Island grass, 40 



do do Couch grass, 48 



do do Marsh Black grass, 38 



