Himalayan 
Rhodo- 
dendrons 
grows to a large size. One cut down some years ago near 
Falmouth was ninety feet in height. 
The Australian and New Zealand Leptospermums are 
very generally grown, and in certain cases have assumed almost 
tree-like proportions, being twenty to twenty-five feet in height. 
The species usually met with are L. baccatum, L. bullatum, and 
L. scoparium. They are pretty objects in the early summer, 
when thickly covered with small white flowers about half an 
inch across. 
Himalayan Rhododendrons are grown on a larger scale 
than they are in any other portion of these islands, and provide 
a rich display of flower through many months of the year, 
commencing with R. nobleanum venustum in November, and 
ending with R. Nuttalli and R. Dalbousiae early in June. 
The finest collection of these glorious flowering shrubs in the 
county is to be seen at Tremough. During his wanderings in 
the Himalayas Sir Joseph Hooker sent seeds that he had 
collected to the owner of that property, which were successfully 
raised, and from that day to the present time the culture of 
Rhododendrons has been assiduously followed at Tremough, 
where many hybrids of great beauty have been raised. Some 
of the specimens of R. arboreum are fully thirty feet in height, 
with a trunk girth of over four feet. A visit to Tremough 
during the month of April, when many of the Rhododendrons 
are at their best, will well repay the flower-lover. At Tre- 
gothnan there are several superb specimens. Four years ago 
a symmetrical example of R. Falconeri, furnished with foliage 
to the very ground, was twenty-two feet in height and thirty 
feet through. One year it bore over two thousand flower- 
trusses. This is probably the finest specimen in the United 
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