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sible. Plants in which this tendency exhibits itself 

 should be planted in dryer soil, and kept quite dry 

 during the months of August and September. 



The only variety which we have known to ripen 

 the second growth successfully is "Cunningham's 

 Dwarf White " in its different kinds, the hardiest of 

 the ^'ponticum " varieties, and which not unfrequently 

 gives a pretty autumn bloom. 



The best season for transplanting Rhododendrons 

 is undoubtedly spring, say from the middle of April 

 to the middle of May ; but some cultivators move 

 the plants in August, and there is no objection to 

 autumn or winter transplanting, provided care is 

 taken that the plants do not suffer by being thrown 

 out of the ground by the frost. 



A few years since, at one of the spring exhibitions 

 of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, there 

 being a scarcity of pot-plants, we removed from the 

 beds a number of large Rhododendrons in full bloom, 

 some bearing hundreds of flowers, put them in large 

 boxes, carted them into the exhibition, where they 

 remained two days, and bringing them back placed 

 them again in the positions whence they were taken, 

 without the plants receiving the slightest check or 

 injury. In England it is customary to bring hun- 

 dreds of plants from great distances, just as they are 

 coming into bloom, to form the celebrated exhibitions 

 of American Plants yearly held in the cities, and to 

 take them back again, the plants not feeling the 

 removals. 



Every autumn we take up hundreds of plants of 

 the more tender kinds, some of immense size, set 



