Plate 113 . 
AZALEA, BRILLIANT.* 
Azalea indica , var. 
In a late number of the 4 Floral Magazine’ we figured a 
Continental variety of this favourite flower which had been 
lately introduced, and largely exhibited during the past sea¬ 
son; and we now have the pleasure of placing before our 
friends another equally beautiful one of an entirely different 
character; Due cVAremberg being one of the prettiest of the 
variegata strain, and Brilliant an equally effective example of 
the higher-coloured varieties, of which Juliana and Perry ana 
are well-known types. 
One great charm in this tribe is the great variety of colour 
that they exhibit: they are to be found of all shades and tints, 
from the purest white to the most brilliant crimson; and a col¬ 
lection of them, well staged and selected with that care and 
taste which experience alone can give, produce an effect unsur¬ 
passed by any other class of plants. There is perhaps no ex¬ 
hibitor who combines great skill in cultivation with equally 
good taste in the arrangement of the plants to the same degree 
Mr. Charles Turner, of the Royal Nursery, Slough. Few, we 
think, could see his collection at any of the great exhibitions 
this year without being struck with the exceeding beauty and 
tasteful arrangement of his plants. The flower which we now 
figure was exhibited by him in one of his smaller collections, 
and when it attains the size of those large specimens to which 
we have alluded, will form a very attractive plant, from the ex¬ 
ceeding brightness of its colour, and the beauty of its form. 
We have so often given details as to the culture of the 
Azalea, that we shall, we think, best consult the wishes and 
* Scheurman’s, and not to be confounded with a dull-coloured red of the 
same name, already in the catalogues. 
