Plate 193. 
AZALEA (FOEGET-ME-NOT, IVEEY’S). 
Probably no English grower has been so successful in raising 
seedling Azaleas as Mr. I very, of Dorking, the many fine flowers 
which have proceeded from his Nursery holding a foremost 
place in all collections, for who can have a collection of which 
Gem, leery ana, Criterion , Carnation , and other fine flowers, do 
not form a part \ and we never see a good set of plants staged 
for exhibition in which some of his flowers are not to be found. 
That which we now figure will show that he has not forsaken 
their culture, but that in it and in others which he has already 
exhibited this season, he is prepared to maintain the high cha¬ 
racter which he has so long had as a raiser and grower of 
Azaleas. 
This beautiful spring flower, which forms so prominent a 
feature at our various exhibitions, and both from its beauty and 
its fragrance is so generally admired, is by no means difficult of 
culture for those who are contented with ordinary cultivation, 
t of course, like every other plant, pays for the care bestowed 
upon it, and those mountains of bloom which are produced 
every year at the metropolitan shows are only the result of un¬ 
ceasing care and attention. The great enemy to their culti¬ 
vation is the thrips, and we have observed, in a series of admi¬ 
rable articles by that well-known Azalea grower, Mr. Barnes, 
of Camberwell, that he advocates fumigation in preference to 
any other process, for keeping this under, and considers that it 
ought to be repeated two or three times so as to ensure the 
destruction of this pest. Various other plans have been pro¬ 
posed, such as dipping them in a solution of Gishurst compound, 
and other preparations of a similar character; but, independently 
