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of the three other classes of colouring, which comprise 

 by far the largest number of the splendid varieties now 

 grown. There are a great many beautiful whites ; of 

 these, two that I most admire are Madame Carvalho 

 and Sappho ; the latter is an immense flower, with a 

 conspicuous purple blotch. There is also a grand old 

 kind called Minnie, a very large-growing one, with fine 

 white trusses ; and a dwarf -growing white that comes 

 early into bloom is Cunningham's White, also useful for 

 forcing, as it is a small plant, and a free bloomer. 



Nothing is more perplexing than to judge of the 

 relative merits of colours in a Rhododendron nursery, 

 where they are all mixed up. I have twice been 

 specially to look for varieties of a true pink colour, but 

 the quantity of untrue pinks is so great that anything 

 approaching a clear pink looks much better than it is. 

 In this way I chose Kate Waterer and Sylph, both 

 splendid varieties; but when I grew them with my 

 true pink Bianchi they would not do, the colour having 

 the suspicion of rank quality that I wished to keep 

 out of that group. This same Bianchi, a kind that 

 likes a shady place, I found was not grown in the 

 larger nurseries. I had it from Messrs. Maurice Young, 

 of the Milfprd Nurseries, near Godalming. I regretted 

 to hear lately from some one to whom I recommended 

 it that it could not be supplied. It is to be hoped that 

 so good a thing has not been lost. 



A little way from the main Rhododendron clumps, 

 and among bushy Andromedas, I have the splendid 



