RHODODENDRON. 205 



Three beautiful species of this plant have 

 been discovered growing within the same 

 latitudes in America, where the rhododendron 

 has been found to flourish in the old world. 



Peter Collinson, Esq. had the honour to be 

 the first who introduced the American rhodo- 

 dendron, maximum, in the year 1736. In the 

 year 1786 Messrs. Fraser, nurserymen in 

 Sloane-square, introduced the Carolina dotted 

 rhododendron, punctatwn ; and about the year 

 1810, the same firm raised from seed the 

 dotted-leaved rhododendron, which is a native 

 of the mountains of Carolina. These Ame- 

 rican species have flowers of a fine pink 

 colour or peach blossom, which form an 

 agreeable variety with the rich violet tints of 

 the former species. 



That these plants are nearly allied to the 

 genus azalea, is proved by the experiments 

 of Mr. Herbert, of Spofforth, near Wetherby, 

 who has succeeded in raising a new plant by 

 scattering the pollen from the anthers of rho- 

 dodendron, maximum, over the stigma of the 

 common white glaucous-leaved azalea, from 

 which seed has been raised, mule plants, 

 which partake of the nature of both parents. 

 It takes after the rhododendron in its cori- 

 aceous evergreen foliage, the number of its 

 stamens, the redness and expansion of the 



