No. 1176. 
RHODODENDRON CATAWBIENSE. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
A native of the high mountains of Vir- 
ginia and Carolina, particularly near the. 
head waters of the Catawba river, whence 
its appellation has been derived. 
With us it is a hardy shrub, very bushy, 
and of moderate size, flowering in great 
abundance in May and June. It has a 
considerable affinity with the R. ponticum ; 
it blooms also at the same season: the 
seeds ripen in England every year, and 
from them have been raised numberless 
varieties of every intervening grade be- 
tween the two kinds. It must be planted 
in soil composed of half peat and half fresh 
+ 
loam. È. 
