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EVERGREEN TREES AND SHRUBS. 
With the above sorts to work upon, British and Continental 
gardeners have originated thousands of seedlings of all colors and 
qualities, large bushes and small, tender green-house varieties, and 
hardy sorts, that bear full exposure to the sun in summer and the 
cold in winter, and well adapted to common use everywhere. Of 
the latter the following is a choice list of varieties recommended by 
J. R. Strumpe, Esq., of Flushing, one of the most skillful American 
cultivators of rhododendrons. These have all been tested in open 
ground for many years, and are recommended for combining good 
foliage with fine flowers. 
R. album candidissima. —A dwarf bush.—The best white-flowered 
variety. 
R. album elegans. —Tree-like habit; blush-white flowers. 
R. album grandiflorum. —A large bush; foliage handsome ; 
flowers white. 
R. bicolor. —Tall straggling grower. Rose-colored flowers. 
R. blandyanum. —Bushy and dwarf. Flowers bright cherry. 
R. blandum. —Bush middle size. Flowers lilac-white ; late. 
R. everestianum. —Dwarf, round bush. Rosy-lilac with yellow 
centre. 
R. gloriosum. —Handsome tree-like form. Large blush clusters. 
R. grandiflorum. —One of the most prolific bloomers. Rose to 
crimson. 
R. purpureum elegans. —Dwarf, bushy. Large trusses of purple 
flowers. 
R. Leeii purpureum. —Lee’s dark purple. Middle size, bushy. 
The best dark purple. 
R. roseum elegans .—Low and bushy. Best dwarf with rose 
flowers. 
R. speciosum. —Large bush. Flowers light-pink, and late. 
It has usually been recommended to form a peculiar soil for 
the rhododendrons, to resemble that where they are found wild ; 
but the best cultivators are now repudiating that idea, as far as 
relates to the hardy hybrids from the catawbaensis , and recommend 
deep culture in ordinary garden loams containing some clay. 
