588 EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 



With the above sorts to work upon, British and Continental 

 gardeners have originated thousands of seedlings of all colors and 

 qualities, large bushes and small, tender green-house varieties, and 

 hardy sorts, that bear full exposure to the sun in summer and the 

 cold in winter, and. well adapted to common use everywhere. Of 

 the latter the following is a choice list of varieties recommended by 

 J. R. Strumpe, Esq., of Flushing, one of the most skillful American 

 cultivators of rhododendrons. These have all been tested in open 

 ground for many years, and are recommended for combining good 

 foliage with fine flowers. 



R. album candidissima. — Adwarfbushi — The best white-flowered 

 variety. 



R. album elegans. — Tree-like habit ; blush-white flowers. 



R. album grandiflorum. — A large bush ; foliage handsome ; 

 flowers white. 



R. bicolor. — Tall straggling grower. Rose-colored flowers. 



R. blandyanum. — Bushy and dwarf. Flowers bright cherry. 



R. blandum. — Bush middle size. Flowers lilac-white ; late. 



R. everestianum. — Dwarf, round bush. Rosy-lilac with yellow 

 centre. 



R. gloriosum. — Handsome tree-like form. Large blush clusters. 



R. grandiflorum. — One of the most prolific bloomers. Rose to 

 crimson. 



R. purpuretim elegans. — Dwarf, bushy. Large trusses of purple 

 flowers. 



R. Leeii purpureum. — Lee's dark purple. Middle size, bushy. 

 The best dark purple. 



R. roseum elegans. — Low and bushy. Best dwarf with rose 

 flowers. 



R. spedosum. — Large bush. Flowers light-pink, and late. 



It has usually been recommended to form a peculiar soil for 

 the rhododendrons, to resemble that where they are found wild ; 

 but the best cultivators are now repudiating that idea, as far as 

 relates to the hardy hybrids from the catawbaensis, and recommend 

 deep culture in ordinary garden loams containing some clay. 



