Plate 63. 
STANDISH’S HYBRID AZALEA. 
Azalea amoena hybrida . 
When this plant was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, in June, 1860, it was unanimously com¬ 
mended as a fine addition to hardy flowering shrubs, and such 
indeed it is. It was raised by Mr. Standish, of Bagshot, from 
A. indica lateritia by A. amoena , and has most general resem¬ 
blance to the latter parent, being a dwarf, compact shrub, with 
small purple flowers. Our figure has been drawn from a spe¬ 
cimen communicated by Mr. Standish. One of its chief re¬ 
commendations, apart from the neatness of its habit, and the 
beauty of its numerous blossoms, consists in its being perfectly 
hardy, the specimen above referred to having, at the time it was 
shown, been taken up in full flower from the open ground, 
where it had been growing for two years previously. Of a lot 
of seedlings, turned out in the open ground, Mr. Standish states 
that this appears to be the most perfectly hardy, not a leaf 
having been injured. 
The parent plant forms a dwarf, compact-growing evergreen 
bush, with slender twiggy branches, which are clothed with 
broad, appressed, scale-like hairs. The leaves are elliptic in 
outline, acute, indistinctly crenated, strigosely hairy, especially 
at the margin. The flowers appear to be solitary at the ends 
of short twiggy shoots, but these being developed in a whorl, 
the flowers appear to form a small open truss, with branched 
Plate Q 3. —Azalea am(exa hybeida: dwarf, compact, evergreen; leaves 
elliptic, acute, strigosely hairy ; flowers apparently solitary at the ends of the 
short twiggy shoots; funnel-bell-shaped, with flat rounded lobes overlapping 
at the base ; stamens five, protruded; stigma capitate, four-lobed ; ovary four- 
celled. 
