No. 885. 
AZALEA SINENSIS. 
Class, Order. 
PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
We received this splendid plant in 1823, 
from China: it flowered in the month of 
May last. The blossoms are inodorous; 
they are exceedingly large, and more of the 
Rhododendron shape than the Azalea pon- 
tica, to which it has no resemblance except 
in colour. 
It is deciduous, and we have little doubt 
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of China. We have not yet multiplied it, 
but expect that it will inerease by layers 
and cuttings. It has hitherto been in the 
greenhouse, and potted in peat and loam. 
The vast empire of China abounds in 
plants of unknown beauty, as in fact does 
every part of the globe: new discoveries 
are daily making, yet immense fields remain 
unexplored, so that there will always be 
enough of our blessed Creator’s works to 
excite our feeble powers to admiration and 
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