The Garden Magazine, February, 1920 



259 



A PERFECTLY HARDY NATIVE SHRUB 



The earliest flowering of our Azaleas (or deciduous Rhododendrons) is this 

 pure luminous pink Rhododendron Vaseyi which grows wild in abundance in 

 the mountains of North Carolina whilst we scour the far corners of the earth 

 for novelties of striking beauty and merit ! Verily it is not alone the prophet 

 who is without honor in his own country. Such plants should be set as 

 this one is against a dark, contrasting, background 



