62 THE RHODODENDRON. 



Variety nitaticum is a yery fine flower ; white, 

 spotted with pale yellow; tender. 



Variety blandum, a good pale blush kind ; tender. 



Variety roseum has rosy flowers, not especially 

 desirable with so many better flowers of the color ; 

 tender. 



Variety aucub^folium is a very distinct kind, with 

 spotted leaves. The flowers are light lilac, and very 

 pretty. It has stood the winter with us for three 

 years uninjured. 



Variety TORTULOSUMhas light green and curiously 

 contorted foliage. It is only desirable as a curi- 

 osity. 



Variety plore plbno is desirable if any one wishes 

 a double-flowered Rhododendron. The color is pale 

 purple, the flower of good form ; but it is wanting 

 in the simplicity and beauty of the single varieties. 



It seems tolerably hardy, having stood the last 

 four winters with us in a northern exposure, the 

 flower-buds surviving, and the foliage only being 

 slightly browned one year. 



Variety hyacinthiflorum is another double-flow- 

 ered kind, and open to the same objection as the 

 last-mentioned. The flowers are very double ; and 

 the plant is a good grower, and blooms freely. 



It has proved hardy with us. 



