ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS AND TREES. 
9 
Of the large family of Khododendrons which the Waterers and 
Pauls have brought to such perfection and the sweet Honeysuckle-flowered 
American Azaleas, the golden Pontic, and the buff-coloured Mollis, the 
newer hybrid Mollis-sinensis, also the double varieties, all splendid and 
even gorgeous in their way, it will suffice if we name a few of the best 
for those who can give them peat or sandy loam. Nor must we omit the 
exquisite Kalmia latifolia or the pretty tribe of Heaths now coming into 
flower. The pink Daphne Cneorum is a good edging plant for peat beds, 
and produces a profusion of neat flowers ; as also the Polygalas. 
Selection of a few of the best hybrid Ehododendrons for effect flower- 
ing in May and June : — 
White, and WJiite loith spots. 
Delicatum 
Mrs. Agnew 
Minnie 
Snowflake 
Evelyn 
Princess Alice 
Mrs. Russell Sturgis 
The Bride 
Purity 
Sappho 
The Queen 
Bose and Pink of Various Shades. 
Alex. Aide 
Broughtonii 
Catawbiense roseum 
Lady Cathcart 
Mdme. Wagner 
Mrs. Holford 
Mrs. J. Waterer 
Prince de Rohan 
Stella 
Titian 
Hoseum elegans 
Bed and Crimson. 
Bar clay anum 
Brayanum 
Blandyanum 
Fleur de Marie 
Dr. Hogg 
Warrior 
James Mason 
Fred. Waterer 
Grand Arab (early) 
John Waterer 
Michael Waterer 
Mrs. Shuttleworth 
Purple and' Lilac. 
Everestianum 
Fastuosum plenum 
Joseph Whitworth 
Maculatum superbum 
Ne Plus Ultra 
Old Port 
Othello 
Purpureum elegans 
Standard of Flanders 
And many others. 
Azaleas are seldom quoted in named varieties. The Nurseries have 
always good collections of all the species named, and the Mollis section 
are so much mixed in the seedlings offered that named ones are scarcely 
better, and naturally more expensive. The newer Mollis-sinensis contain 
many fine named varieties. 
Besides Kalmia latifolia, K. glauca is a neat dwarf species with red 
flowers. For edgings also the yellow Polygala Chamiebuxus and P. C. 
purpurea form neat tufts, while the various Ledums, with Andromeda 
polifolia, which produces its white flowers early in cpring, is very distinct. 
A. japonica, with its clusters of white bells, forms a neat shrub ; and A. 
pulverulenta (Zenobia), with its sprays of crystalHne white flowers, is 
lovely. Clethra arborea is very free flowering, with white upright 
panicles nicely scented. 
