RHODODEN DRON HYB'RIDUM. 
Herbert’s hybrid rhododendron. 
Class. Order. 
DECANDRIA. MONOGYNIA. 
Natural Order. 
RHODORACE^. 
Hybrid 
Height. 
Flowers in I 
Habit. 
Raised in 
Origin. 
4 feet. 
June. 
Shrub 
in 1818. 
No. 941. 
The meaning and derivation of the word Rhodo- 
dendron has been lately noticed. 
We have here an intermediate progeny between 
Rhododendron and Azalea, which was raised at a 
period when the appellation hybridum was not 
applicable, as it now is, to a multitude of varieties. 
We are glad to have met with it, and to publish it 
as the prognostic, thirty years ago, of that which 
has been realized, and as evidence that hybrid 
plants are not of so temporary a character as some 
botanists have supposed. 
This plant was raised at Spofforth, by the present 
Dean of Manchester, The Hon. and Rev. W. Her-' 
bert, whose talents and industry have opened a wide 
field of enquiry regarding hybrid plants, more es- 
pecially those of the bulbous kind. 
It originated from seed, ripened on the common 
white glaucous-leaved Azalea, in the flower of 
which the pollen, or dust from the anthers of Rho- 
dodendron maximum had been purposely substitu- 
ted for that of its own flower. This was effected in 
the year 1813, and in 1817 Mr. Herbert sent a 
specimen of the plant thus raised, to the Rev, John 
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