DESCRIPTION OF THE EHODODENDEON. 63' 



The 1)108801118 cover the whole plant, and, though 

 not brilliant in color, in the mass are very showy. 

 It stands the coldest winters uninjured, will grow 

 in any moist garden soil, and never fails to bloom. 



Figured in Lodd. Cab. t. 65, though the flower is 

 too bright in color. 



Variety album, figured in Sweet's, M. G. II. 

 t. 258, has white flowers. We do not now find it 

 in any catalogues. 



Ehododendeon lapponicum. 



A small Alpine species, growing about six inches 

 high, with small violet-purple flowers. We have not 

 seen it in cultivation, although it can easily be 

 obtained from the White Mountains. Probably, like 

 aU Alpines, it would prove of difiicult cultivation. 



Mgured in Bot. Mag. 58, t. 3106. 



Ehododendeon kamtschaticdm. 



A low-growing species, with purple flowers, native 

 of Kamtschatka ; probably not now to be fomid in 

 cultivation. 



Ehododendeon cham^cistus. 



This species, in foliage, is wholly imlike a Eho- 

 dodendron, the leaves rather resembling some species 

 of thyme. It is a native of the European Alps and 

 of Siberia ; and would probably prove hardy, with 



