46 PRESENT-DAY GARDENING 
a mild winter, and rarely excessive sunshine in summer, 
characteristic of this part of Cornwall, are ideal conditions 
for these Rhododendrons. Many of them seed freely, and 
the seedlings germinate in the shade of their parents. 
There one may see R. arhoreum, R, Falconeri, R, harha- 
tuniy R, campanulatum, R. grande, R, Thomsonii, R, Griffithi- 
anum, R. Maddenii, R, campylocarpum, R. cinnaharinum, 
R. ciliatum, R. trifloriim, and R. niveum, not as moderate- 
sized bushes, as one sees them where they require more or 
less protection, but as great masses of stems and healthy 
foliage, and when in flower many of them are canopies 
of bloom. In other parts of the country there are also fine 
collections. One of the best is that of Sir Edmund Loder, 
at Leonardslee, where the conditions are evidently excep- 
tionally favourable for Rhododendrons, and the proprietor 
is a most enthusiastic collector and cultivator of them. 
Close by is Mr. Godman's fine garden at South Lodge, 
where Rhododendrons are a special feature. The home 
of the late H. J. Mangles, who did more than any one to 
popularise Rhododendrons, and who collected in his garden 
at Haslemere all the species that he could procure, so that 
he might study and breed from them, still remains a great 
Rhododendron garden. A few miles away, at Littleworth, 
his sister. Miss Mangles, devotes much space to an excep- 
tionally rich collection, in which many of the Haslemere 
hybrids can also be seen. Sir John Llewellyn, Bt., Penller- 
gaer, in South Wales, has one of the largest and best grown 
collections in England, and Sir John is an authority on all 
that concerns Rhododendrons. 
In Ireland there are at least two famous collections, one 
at Killmacurragh, where the late Sir Thomas Acton collected 
and grew many of the best of the Himalayan species and 
