RHODODEN'DRON GLENNYA'NUM. 
MR. GLENNYS RHODODENDRON. 
Class. 
DF.CANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHODORACEjE. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Cultivated 
Origin. 
4 feet. 
M ay. 
Shrub. 
in 1840. 
No. 1084. 
The derivation of Rhododendron, has been given 
at No. 967. To hybrid plants, we have usually 
applied a specific name, compounded of those borne 
by the parents ; the present handsome variety is, 
however, known as Mr. Glenny’s, and it would not 
be either just or courteous towards that gentleman, 
to deprive him of the honour of being associated 
with so exceedingly handsome a subject. 
The multitude of Rhododendrons that have been 
propagated of late years, between different species, 
including Azalias, have destroyed the novelty but 
not the beauty of these splendid hybrids. The 
honour of first directing attention to their propaga- 
tion, belongs to the late Earl of Caernarvon, whose 
talented brother in the same walk of science, the 
Hon. and Rev. William Herbert, we regret to state, 
has ceased to enlighten the world on hybrid bulbs, 
a subject of which he possessed a more profound 
knowledge than any botanist, that ever existed. 
The very handsome plant which we have now 
figured is quite hardy, and grows luxuriantly in 
loam and decayed leaves. It contrasts finely with 
the dark hybrids obtained from Arboreum. 
