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House & Garden 
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Informality should characterize the plantiny scheme of rhododen¬ 
drons. Here it is attained by the solid banks of bloom and their 
natural background of trees 
AS TO FLOWERING 
EVERGREENS 
GRACE TABOR 
Photographs by Nathan R. Graves 
Viewed singly, the floxoer 
heads shoio xinexpected deli¬ 
cacy of form and texture 
A ll evergreens pro- 
.. duce flowers, of a 
kind; but not all produce 
flowers that are note¬ 
worthy to any but the 
simon-pure botanist. 
I am moved to the mak¬ 
ing of this pseudo-apol- 
ogy by reason of the 
botanist’s well known 
jealousy of exact terms. 
T stand in great awe of 
the botanist; and I know 
that I have not, strictly 
speaking, a right to dis¬ 
tinguish as “flowering” 
evergreens the plants 
which I am here about to 
consider. But it is a 
phrase that means a great 
Besides the white, rhododen¬ 
drons may be had in varying 
tones of pink and red 
deal more to the layman, 
I am sure, than the more 
technical “broad leaved 
evergreens” of scientific 
precision. Besides, they 
are not so very broad 
leaved, literally—save by 
comparison, perhaps, with 
the needle leaved species 
which commonly pose as 
the entire family under 
the general name of 
“evergreens.” 
It is, it seems to me, 
notable that the showiest 
flower in American woods 
An excellent example of 
rhododendron planting in a 
suitable hillside location 
