Plate 177. 
RHODODENDRON, PRINCESS OE WALES 
(YOUNG’S). 
The county of Surrey has long been famous for the success¬ 
ful manner in which what are ordinarily called American plants 
are cultivated there, the names of Standish, Godfrey, Waterer, 
Noble, and others having obtained a world-wide reputation; 
nor is it simply in their cultivation that they have been so suc¬ 
cessful, but also in originating new varieties,—more especially 
has this been the case with the Rhododendron, a large propor¬ 
tion of the kinds which appear in our catalogues having been 
raised there. To these successful hybridizers we have now to 
add another name; Mr. Young, of the Milford Nurseries, near 
Godaiming, having justly won his right to take his position 
amongst them,—a fact, we think, sufficiently apparent from the 
beautiful variety which forms the subject of our Plate having 
been raised by him. He has also raised another most desirable 
kind, Prince of Wales , which we regret not being able to figure 
at the same time; but where the truss of bloom occupies so 
large a space, it is impossible to do so. 
The claims of the Rhododendron as an ornamental shrub 
have not been as much regarded as they ought to have been, 
many persons imagining that unless they have a peaty soil it is 
impossible to attempt their growth. This is a mistake; they 
will, of course, flourish best in such a soil, as their luxuriance 
in the peaty hills of Surrey abundantly testifies, but they will 
also thrive well in many soils when not of a very heavy nature, 
and even then the addition of peat and sand (which by the aid 
of railways can now be procured almost everywhere) will en¬ 
able them to be cultivated with a very fair share of success: 
