SUCCESSFUL BREEDERS 27 
to 40 feet high, with stout branches forming a round head, 
large, Laurel-like, evergreen leaves, and flowers in a compact 
head with pink pedicels and white corollas spotted with 
green on the upper segments. They expand in June and 
July, and are singular in having a young leaf growth by the 
side of the flower-head. 
Other successful breeders of Rhododendrons in the 
early part of last century were Messrs. Loddiges, Lee and 
Kennedy, Standish, the Waterers, Jas. Veitch, and Booth of 
Hamburg amongst nurserymen, and the Earl of Carnarvon 
and the Earl of Liverpool amongst amateurs. More recent 
successful breeders were Messrs. Cunningham, Davis, Noble, 
Seidel of Dresden, and of course John and Anthony Waterer, 
I. Anderson Henry, H. J. Mangles, and Luscombe. 
A species which, by its exceptionally good qualities and 
well-marked characteristics, has been productive of numerous 
beautiful hybrids, is R, Griffithianum. Introduced from 
the Sikkim Himalaya in 1849, flowered in a nursery 
at Wandsworth in May 1858. What may be called a 
Chinese form of it, differing mainly in having usually six 
or seven flower segments instead of five, was introduced in 
1859 by Fortune, and named in compliment to him. These 
two plants, thanks to the efforts of Mangles, Luscombe, 
Anderson Henry, Gill, Sir E. Loder, and a few others, have 
been the means of enriching gardens with a race of Rhodo- 
dendrons possessing all the attributes of first-rate, hardy, 
large-flowered shrubs. 
The first Griffithianum hybrids were raised in the 
gardens of the Lawson Company at Edinburgh, in or about 
the year 1869, when Mr. Scott crossed R. Griffithianum and 
the red-flowered John Waterer, supposed to be a hybrid 
between R, arhoreum and R. catawhiense. In 1879 these 
