Plate 498 . 
AZALEA — MARIE HENRIETTE. 
The varieties of this very beautiful greenhouse plant are not 
so numerously produced as they were some few years ago ; at 
least, not flowers of sterling merit ; and very few have been 
brought forward at the various exhibitions which have been 
held in London this season. We believe that Messrs. I very 
& Son of Dorking have some good flowers to distribute, while 
Mr. Charles Turner of Slough has some of Belgian origin, 
which are evidently of a style sure to be popular, and amongst 
them is the one we now figure, Marie Benrietle. 
We last year figured a flower of somewhat the same 
character — Mrs. Turner — also in Mr. Turner’s hands, but the 
present variety differs considerably from that ; indeed, how- 
ever closely those flowers, which seem to have their origin in 
the old “ variegata ” may seem to resemble each other, the eye 
of the cultivator soon discerns the difference. Etoile de Gaud, 
Due d' Aremburg, Fascination, Mrs. Turner , and Marie Henrietta, 
all belong to the same style, but they are all distinct, and al- 
though in a small collection it may be possible to dispense 
with some of them, yet they are none of them out of place in a 
larger one. 
Marie Henriette, is a flower of very delicate colouring, the 
ground a bright salmon pink, with a clear, w r ell-defined margin of 
white round each petal, the two upper petals being spotted with 
dark rosy crimson spots. The habit of the plant is very robust, 
