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RHODODENDRON PINK PEARL. 



(Engraved for " Flora.") 



RHODODENDRON "PINK 

 PEARL." 



Among the many hundreds of hardy hybrid 

 Rhododendrons that have been raised there are 

 none that can compare with this variety, which 

 was first shown at the Temple Show in 1896, 

 and was at once noticed as a first-rate novelty. 

 The demand for it ever since has been so great 

 that the raisers, Messrs. John Waterer and Sons, 

 Bagshot, have barely been able to supply it. It 



is quite hardy, growing equally as well in the 

 north of Scotland and near the smoke of Man- 

 chester, as in the south and west of England. 

 We have also the very best accounts of it from 

 Adelaide, Australia, and from South Africa, 

 where we hear from Mr. Arderne of Capetown, 

 " that the Pink Pearl you first sent me is now 

 over 6 feet high, and when last inbloomwasthe 

 admiration of all who saw it." Pink Pearl marks 

 a distinct break in hardy Rhododendrons, the 

 lovely flesh-pink colour of its large flowers 



