AZA'LEA VISCO'SA. 
Variety Canescens. 
CANESCENT AZALEA. 
Class. 
PENTANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHODORACEiE. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit 
Cultivated 
Origin. 
4 feet. 
August. 
Shrub. 
in 1835. 
No. 933. 
The Greek azaleos, dry or arid, alludes to the 
habitat of the plant to which the name was first 
given. Azalea viscosa includes several very dis- 
tinct varieties. From one or other of these, up- 
wards of one hundred named varieties have origin- 
ated. At Highclere, the seat of Lord Carnarvon, 
the variety known as Rubescens was crossed with 
Azalea pontica, and a numerous progeny of much 
beauty obtained, varying in their characters be- 
tween the two species. 
It will be recollected that the Azaleas and Rho- 
dodendrons are, by most authors, accounted as 
one genus, under the name Azalea ; and there are 
reasonable grounds for their amalgamation. The 
only difficulty emanating from their separation, is 
that of determining to which genus the numerous 
hybrids that have been, and still will be, propagated 
between the two, should be attached. The beauty 
and variety of these afford abundant encourage- 
ment for perseverance in adding to the stock. 
Some of our readers may be unacquainted with 
the method of fertilizing different species of plants, 
so as to obtain seedlings partaking of the character 
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