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RHODODENDRON SMITHII AUREUM. 
preserving the delicacy of its blossoms for a greater length of time. Submitted to 
such treatment, it constitutes a splendid ornament to a show-house or conservatory, 
and may be retained in bloom several weeks. 
Cultivated in the open ground, it demands, like other Rhododendrons, a good 
depth of heath-soil, and a rather shaded as well as sheltered situation. The 
advantage of having a great mass of bog-earth for these plants, instead of a slight 
superficial layer, is strongly exemplified in the extraordinary collection of Messrs. 
Waterer, of Knap Hill, Surrey, where the soil is naturally from nine to twelve 
feet thick, and the plants attain an amazing degree of luxuriance, at the same time 
flowering in a most astonishing manner. 
Rkodon, a rose, and dendron, a tree, constitute the basis of the generic term ; 
the flowers of some species having the appearance of clusters of Roses. 
