Plate 104. 
AZALEA DUC D’AREMBERG. 
Azalea indica , var. 
The frequenters of the various horticultural exhibitions held 
during the last month at Kensington, the Kegent’s Park, and 
the Crystal Palace, could not fail to have been struck with the 
wonderful specimens of Azaleas contributed by various growers, 
both public and private; they have been, indeed, for many years 
a leading feature of the May exhibitions, but we think that this 
year they have been finer than ever; newer varieties are being 
brought forward, and some of the older and less effective ones 
are displaced—this being a work of time, where the plants 
must necessarily be so large. 
The hybridizers, both of the continent and this country, are 
emulating one another in their endeavour to bring before the 
public new and sterling varieties, and during the past few years 
have been very successful in their attempts to improve it, both 
in form and colour—Messrs. Kinghorn, I very, Frost, and others, 
in England, and Mons. Verschaeffelt and other growers in Bel¬ 
gium, having largely added to our floral treasures in this family. 
One of the more recent of the continental varieties forms the 
subject of our present plate ; it was exhibited by Messrs. F. and 
A. Smith, of Dulwich, at the April show of the Boyal Horti¬ 
cultural Society, and received a first-class certificate ; the flowers 
are of good form and substance, of a delicate salmon-pink co¬ 
lour, with a broad distinct margin of white, the pink being 
striped and dashed with red; the upper petals are spotted at 
the base with deep red, and altogether it is very well worthy 
of the position that it occupied. 
The cultivation of the Indian Azaleas is by no means difficult, 
and their exceedingly free-flowering habits render them alike va¬ 
luable to the exhibitor, who wishes to make a blaze of beautv. 
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