Seedlings bf two other American species have been raised' at th& 
Arboretum, but it is too soon to judge of their' value as garden plants: 
They are R. aiistrinum, with slender pal'e yellow flowers appearing 
before the leaves, a native of the valley of the Apalachieolh River ill 
western Florida, and R. candidum from southern Georgia, with white 
or pale pink flowefs appearing after the leaves. " Thebe is another 
Azalea to introduce into the gardens. This a native of central Georgia 
where, in some localities, it is very abundant in open woods. Discovl 
ered by Michauk, the Fbench botaftist, more than a Oentury ago and 
confounded by him and all later authors with R. calenduladeum, it has 
been called the variety flammeum of that specie^. From R. calendu- 
laceum, however, this plant, which should be called R. fiamWieum, 
differs in its winter-buds, in the siie arid shape of the flowers and in 
the fact that the flowers open before the leaves. The* flbtoers on dif- 
ferent plants vary from yellow to deep orange and to scarlet; and the 
flowers of no other Azalea Compare in brilliancy with' some of the deep- 
colored forms of this Georgia plant, which it is reasonable to hope “may 
prove hardy here aS several plants from the same geheral region are 
well established in the Arboretum." The beautiful, whiter-flowered 
Azalea (R. occidentale) from the borders of streams on- the western 
slopes of the Cascade and Sierra Nevada Mountains of the west has 
not yet proved hardy here probably because just the right place has 
nOt been found for it. 
These native Azaleas are handsomer, hardier, and in every Way more 
satisfactory than the so-called Ghent Azaleas which are hybrids of 
some of bur species with the Caucasian yellow-flowered Azalea (i?. yitU 
vum or Azalea pontica)/ This plant is not hardy here, and its' influence! 
on the Ghent hybrids ha3 been unfortunate so far as thife country is 
concerned. Many of these hybrids are' beautiful flowering plants; 1 some 
are quite hardy but most of them show evidence of a pdor constitution; 
they grow slowly and suffer in severe winters, and none of them have 
the vigor of their American 1 parents. These Ghent hybrids- are ' raised 
by grafting in great quantities in European nurseries and many of 
them come to this country. It is impossible, however, to obtain the 
native plants in large quantities. Occasionally plants collected fbom 
the woods are offered for sale, but these collected plants are always 
less desirable than nursery-raised seedlings which are rarely to be 
found; and the American nurseryman who will take up the raising of 
seedling American Azaleas on a large scale will confer a benefit on 
American gardens. 
Magnolia glauca of the Atlantic coast region from Massachusetts to 
Florida is in bloom. No small tree is a more delightful inhabitant of 
the garden, where it is an object of beauty throughout the year with 
its bright green branches in winter and its beautiful leaves which are 
dark green and very lustrous above and silvery white below, and which 
remain on the branches at the north without change of color until the 
beginning of winter and in the south till early spring. The small, 
creamy white, cup-shaped flowers continue to open during many weeks, 
and especially in the evening fill the air with their delicate pungent 
odor; they are followed by the cone-shaped fruits which are common to 
9,11 Magnolias and are showy when the scarlet seeds hang from them on 
slender threads. Every one with a garden who makes the acquaintance 
of this plant wants to grow it; it is easily raised from seed, and at the 
end of three or four years seedling plants are of saleable size. In spite 
of the demand for it, which would increase if plants could be had, it is 
almost impossible to find this Magnolia in American nurseries. Mag- 
nolia Thompsoniana is also in good bloom. This is a hybrid raised in 
