RHODODEND'RON ENNEAN'DRIUJVT. 
. HYBRID RHODODENDRON. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHODORACEiE. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Raised. 
Mexico. 
3 feet. 
June. 
Shrub. 
Uncertain. 
No. 931. 
Rhododendron, compounded of rhodon, den- 
DRON, a rose or beautiful flower; and a tree. The 
Greek word rhodon, in the sense of a beautiful 
flower, is well deserved by this splendid genus of 
shrubs. 
This is a beautiful and free-flowering plant, 
partaking more of the character of Azalea than 
Rhododendron ; and with an anomalous number of 
stamens, as if it had been exalted from amongst 
the Azaleas, which have five stamens, but had not 
quite reached the character of Rhododendron with 
ten stamens. 
It is a hybrid, raised, we believe, by the very 
Rev. the Dean of Manchester, some years ago, at 
Spofforth; and is nearly related to another of his 
seedlings, called hybridum, in the Bot. Reg. 195. 
Its flowers have a somewhat pleasant fragrance, 
and the plant is quite hardy, but it rarely ripens 
seeds. It may be easily propagated by layering, 
a mode of increase but little resorted to by ama- 
teurs, altlioiigh so simple. It requires only that 
the branches be pegged beneath the soil, in spring, 
leaving only the points of the shoots above ground. 
