POPULAR GARDEN PLANTS. 



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very best, some sheltered dell or hollow is 

 needed where they can be planted informally 

 on the grass, and without any particular re- 

 gard to their colour or time of flowering. If 

 a representative collection is brought together, 

 varieties may be had in flower during April, 

 May, and June. The latter part of May and 



early June, however, is the great Rhododendron 

 time. The variety Nobleanum will sometimes 

 be in flower before Christmas, and it keeps 

 on intermittently till April. A few specimens 

 are worth growing, but owing to its suscepti- 

 bility to frost it is not to be relied on. 



The following list is representative of th<; 



Fig. 602.— "Ghent" Azalea. 



different sorts of hardy garden Rhododen- 

 drons : — 



Purple and lilac. — Baron Schroeder, Caractacus, 

 Charles Thorold, Everestianum, Fastuosum flore pleno, 

 Melton, Purpureum grandiflorum. 



Crimson and scarlet. — Charles Dickens, Doncaster, 

 Frederic Waterer, James Bateman, James Macintosh, J. 

 Marshall Brooks, John Walter, Martin Hope Sutton, 

 Michael Waterer, Mrs. Milner, Sefton, The Warrior. 



Rose and pink. — Lady Armstrong, Lady Eleanor Cath- 

 cart, Mrs. Charles Thorold, Mrs. John Kelk, Mrs. John 

 Penn, Mrs. P. S. Holford. 



Rose and pink with intense spot. — James Nasmyth, 

 Lady Annette de Trafford, Marchioness of Lansdowne, 

 Marie Stuart, Picturatum, Stella, 



Rose and crimson with light centre. — Alexander Dancer, 

 James Mason, John Spencer, Kate Waterer, Mrs. Charles 

 Leaf, Mrs. Mendel. 



White and blush. — Album elegans, Duchess of Con- 

 naught, Madame Carvalho, Minnie, Mrs. John Clutton, 



Mrs. J. P. Lade, Mrs. S. Simpson, Mrs. Thomas Agnew, 

 Pink Pearl, Sappho, Snowflake, The Queen. 



Fortunei hybrids. — Duchess of York, H. M. Arderne, 

 Luscombei, Mrs. Thiselton-Dyer. 



Griffithianum hybrids. — Coombe Royal, Kewense (fig. 

 601), Manglesi. 



Rhododendrons are not all equally well 

 adapted for growing as standards, but the 

 following are recommended : — 



Barclayanum, Everestianum, James Mason, Kate 

 Waterer, Lady Armstrong, Marchioness of Lansdowne, 

 Michael Waterer, Mrs. Charles Thorold, Mrs. John 

 Clutton, Mrs. Shuttle worth, Roseum elegans, Scipio. 



Hardy Azaleas. — If the hardy Azaleas do 

 not hold quite the same commanding position 

 among deciduous shrubs that Rhododendrons 

 do among evergreens, they are undoubtedly in 



