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Ciliatum, a dwarf shrub, is a very free bloomer — a pale 

 pinkish white — very early, and has the peculiarity (unlike any 

 other I know) to bloom at three years old from seed. 



In its own India probably the most common Khododendron 

 is arboreum, and its comparative hardiness in England probably 

 depends upon what Indian locality the seed may have come from. 

 Oorrectly it is a glowing scarlet bloom. Most of those we have 

 in South Wales are the pink or white variety. One of mine, a 

 pure white, is 20 feet high, 14 or 15 through, and when in bloom 

 is a very fine sight. 



Campbelli, blooming at the end of March and in April, is an 

 exceptionally fine thing in size and shape, and though I believe 

 it is classed as a variety of arboreum, I do not think it can be so. 



Cinnamomeum is pink and ocliraceum white, and both may 

 perhaps be varieties of arboreum. 



Falconeri is well worth growing for its magnificent foliage. 

 The leaves are clothed on the under surface with a dense rich 

 yellowish tomentum, and the plant is worth growing for its 

 foliage alone, which in winter is doubly acceptable. The flower 

 is a dull white. As an example I produce some leaves of this 

 species — 15 or 17 by 6J or 7 inches. 



Eximiumh&s a purple bloom, but in other respects resembles 

 Falconeri f and is classed by Sir J. Hooker as a variety of the 

 latter. The plants of these, as also of barbatum, are over 20 

 feet high by 18 through. Perhaps eximium is a natural hybrid 

 between Falconeri and niveum, as it is intermediate between 

 these two in its characters. 



Camj>anulatum, with its lax truss of white bell-shaped 

 flowers, and its lilac variety called WallichU, are general 

 favourites, and have, I believe, been very successfully used in 

 hybridising. Here again the foliage, though comparatively 

 small, is very bright in winter from the rich brown tomentum 

 which thickly clothes the under side of each leaf. 



Campylocarpum is a little gem, a shrub of 5 or G feet high, 

 and the same through, with delicate trusses of soft primrose- 

 yellow bloom. 



Niveum, glaucum, cinnabar inum, Boy lei, Hodgsoni, ful- 

 gens, are species which I have out of doors, and of whose hard- 

 iness I entertain no doubt. 



Grande or argenteum is a fine species which I have grown 



