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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
GARDEN PLANTS— THEIR GEOGRAPHY— XXXVII. 
EKICALES. 
'I Hi-: VACCINEUM, ERICA AND EPACRIS ALLIANCE. 
( Continued. ) 
hricinella is a small genus ot 5 species from 
South Africa, and the mountains of tropical Africa 
and Madagascar. E. Mannii was introduced to Kew 
early in the sixties, and flourished there in 1863 — 
three years earlier than some dictionaries put it. It 
is a humble little thing with light purple flowers, 
and would probably prove hardy at some point in 
KALMIA LATIFOUA. 
Southern California. It is found at the frost line 
on the Cameroon mountains, W. Africa. 
Bryanthus has 3 species, credited to the moun- 
tainous parts of North Western America by some 
authors. They are found in Siberia; one of the Kew 
botanists stated that the pretty B. erectus had been 
found there a few years ago, but the handbooks 
credit it to hybridity. 
Daboccia , “St. Daboec’s heath,” is a monotypic 
little pinkish flowered plant found in Ireland and 
Western Europe. It often grows up from seed in 
imported peaty soil. 
Kalmia , called “laurel,” has 6 species of pretty 
evergreens in North America and Cuba. The Cu- 
ban K. ericoides has narrow leaves. K. glauca 
vars. extend to Hudson’s Hay and California. 
Leiophylluin , “sand myrtles,” are in 2 species, 
from the pine barrens and mountains of the South- 
ern states. They are small evergreens with white 
or pinkish flowers. They prefer moist places. 
Ledum has 4 or 5 species in the colder regions 
of the northern hemisphere. 
hlliottia has 3 species, in Japan and the south- 
ern U. S. The native species E. raccmosa is quite 
sparsely distiibuted in wet sandy woods in Georgia 
and South Carolina. 
Rhododendron including Azalea as a section, has 
170 species, with quite a wide distribution in the 
mountains of India, Ceylon, Malaisia. New Guinea, 
and southward to Mt. Bellenden Ker in Australia. 
The most of such species are sub-tropical, unless 
from great altitudes, on such mountains as the 
Himalayas. The hardier species are found mostly 
in mountainous or hilly localities in Japan, North 
China, the mountains of Central Asia, the Caucasus, 
the mountains of Europe, and both the eastern and 
western United States; R. maximum extends to 
Nova Scotia. 
The sub-tropical Rhododendrons are mostly 
evergreens and such as R. arboreum and its varie- 
ties become trees of 20 to 35 feet highr The Hima- 
layan forms of this species have a silvery pubescence, 
but the South India forms known as R. Nilagiricutn 
are golden on the underside of the leaves. In color 
they range from deep crimson through pink to 
white. The hybrid forms of scarlet and pink shades 
are largely due to R. arboreum var. Campbelliae, a 
form that has proved hardy in several parts of En- 
gland and even in Scotland. Both it and campanu- 
latum, anthopogon, campylocarpum, lepidotum, 
fulgens, Thompsonii and several other species she uld 
be tried in the “ther- 
mal” belts of the 
southe r n m o u n - 
tains, and also west 
of the Cascades on 
the Pacific Coast, 
where, perhaps, a 
large number of hy- 
VELLOWISH HIMALAYAN. DULL ORANGE BORNEAN. 
Rhododendron Campylocarpum. Rhododendron Brookeanum. 
bi ids would also succeed. The fact that these spec- 
ies and the Azalea section readily hybridize is not 
sufficiently appreciated in this country, neither is 
the fact that the varieties of R. Indicum Kaempferi 
are extra hardy and endure even in the southern 
New England States; R. ledifolium is fairly hardy 
too. My friend, Mr. Ferdinand Mangold, Miss 
Gould’s manager, raised a fine lot of seedlings be- 
tween various Sikkim species and R. Indicum some 
years ago, but to show that some care is necessary 
with small seedlings, most of them were lost through 
the carelessness of laborers during his absence. 
