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RHODODENDRON STANDISHII. 
upon it. They are also good growers, with fine handsome foliage, and their time 
of blooming was, last year, from the 20tb of April until the 2nd week of June. 
The subject of our present plate is a hybrid betwixt U. maximum and H. alta- 
clerense. Mr. John Standish sowed the seeds six years ago, and the plant flowered 
when five years old, being then only 15 inches high ; but it bore 8 large trusses of 
fine flowers. It is perfectly hardy, having been out in the open ground ever 
since it was a seedling, and has never been injured by frost. 
The flowers are rather larger than those of U. ponticum, but are disposed in 
trusses of a very superior size. The habit of the plant is dwarf and spreading, and 
the leaves are of a deep glossy green. The violet-crimson of the flowers can scarcely 
be imitated by art, and the throat and upper divisions of the corolla are freely 
spotted with black. 
The name is derived from rhodos, a rose, and dendron, a tree. 
