VARIETIES OF RHODODENDRONS. 



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worms. After their growth, is completed, arrange the plants in a light, airy greenhouse, 

 and keep them well attended to in syringing and watering. A winter temperature of 

 45° to 50° suits most of the varieties, a slight increase forwarding their flowering. Rain- 

 water, or water softened by exposure in open tanks, ought always to be used, either soil 

 or water containing lime proving most injurious to rhododendrons. Clear soot-water 

 may be applied to strongly-rooted plants, after their buds are set, with advantage 



VARIETIES OF GREENHOUSE RHODODENDRONS. 



Some of the more delicate and early flowering, stiff-growing species and varieties, 

 notably E. arboreum, and its progeny, including E. altaclerenso, Eussellianum, Sinithi,and 

 Veitchianum, together with Nuttalli, Edgeworthi, and Aucklandi, are admirably adapted 

 for greenhouse culture, and will succeed in lower temperatures than the Jasminiflorum 

 (page 225), Javanicum, Multicolor and Malayan groups. By crossing and re-crossing 

 those four groups last named, Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, Chelsea, have been most 

 successful in raising and introducing many beautiful novelties among greenhouse rho- 

 dodendrons, and it is from their plant catalogue that the list, with descriptions appended 

 below, are taken. 



Javan ico- Jasminiflorum Hybrids. 



Ajax, bright orange-red, toned with tawny yellow. 

 AMABILE, delicate pale flesh-tinted, with rose ; flowers 



2\ inches in diameter, with short broad tubes. 

 Aphrodite, blush-pink, suffused with white. A 



beautiful variety ; the flowers become almost 



white after being expanded a few days. 

 Apollo, deep orange-red, large globular truss ; plant 



vigorous, with handsome foliage. 

 Baroness Henry Schroder, the finest of the light 



varieties of this group ; delicate blush-white. 

 Brilliant, brilliant scarlet, the finest of its colour 



yet raised ; bold globular trusses of well-formed 



flowers. 



Ceres, a primary hybrid from E. javanicum and 

 R. Teysmani; flowers of a uniform bright tawny 

 yellow. 



Conqueror, brilliant vermilion-red, shaded with 

 orange, paler in the centre ; bright and effective. 



Diadem, bright orange- scarlet, tinted with carmine. 



Duchess of Connaught, bright vermilion-red, well 

 coloured throughout ; compact truss. 



Empress, bright salmon rose ; the flowers among the 

 largest in the section. 



Favourite, light satiny-rose, with white tube and 

 crimson filaments; a beautiful variety, large 

 compact truss. 



Hercules, a superb variety, having the largest truss 

 with the largest flowers in the group ; bright 

 fawn-yellow, toned with rose-pink. 



Imogene, a uniformly light buff-yellow. 



jasminiflorum (species), white, with pink eye ; very 

 delicate and beautiful. (Page 224.) 



jasminiflorum carminatum (hybrid), resembles 

 the species in form, but differs in colour, which 

 is rich carmine, with a faint shade of orange- 

 scarlet. 



Lord Wolseley, an improvement on the species. 

 Javanicum (species) should be preferred to it ; bright 



orange-yellow, tinted with rose towards the 



margin. 



luteo roseum, satiny-rose, suffused with white, the 

 centre toned with light yellow. One of the best; 

 the flowers are more than 2 inches in diameter, 

 and are produced in massive globose trusses. 



Maiden's Blush, white, suffused with pale rose, yel- 

 lowish eye ; one of the best of the earlier crosses. 



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