April 15, 1896.] 



Garden and Forest. 



ticulata, the Pseony-flowered species from the mountains of 

 Hong Kong, is thriving in the open against a wall. We have 

 only lately awoke to the value of Azalea Indica as a hardy 

 shrub, and the Camellia bids fair to accompany its coun- 



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time in our southern states. The white Azalea Indica 

 has proved hardy, with proper care, in the latitude of this 

 city. — Ed.] 



Rhododendron-, Otto Forster.— This is a hybrid between 



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Fig. 21. — Oreodoxa regia, in Florida. —See page 152. 



tryman in its migration from the greenhouse to the open air. 



[Those who have seen the great Camellias in the old 



gardens at Drayton Manor, near Charleston (see vol. ii., 



p. 129), can realize the splendor of these trees at flowering 



Rhododendron Veitchianum ami R. Edgeworthii, two of 

 the most distinct of the Himalayan species. It was raised 

 a few years ago by Mr. O. Forster, of Lehenhof, Austria, 

 from whom plants of it were secured for Kew, when- it is 



