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REPORT ON LAMELLYN GARDEN. 
Contributed by E. J. P. Magor. 
The garden is situated some six miles from the north coast of Cornwall, about 
nine miles from Tintagel. It is a narrow wooded valley facing north-west, and 
sheltered from the east by rising ground above, and to some extent from the 
prevailing north-west wind by a high hill intersecting its mouth. 
The soil is a heavy loam for the most part, in some parts very shallow, and 
overlies slaty shale, save in the centre of the valley where there is blue clay 
underneath. 
Rhododendron culture here owes its inception to a sight of Rh. grande 
(argenteum), in flower in the Temperate House, at Kew, in the year 1900. The 
collecting of many Sikkim and other species from various sources followed, and 
first attempts at hybridization were made in 1905. In this, in the raising and 
culture of seedlings, in a continuous supply of Chinese and other seed, I owe more 
than I can say to the kindness and generosity of Mr. J. C. WiUiams. 
The best plant in the garden is Rh. Keiskei, which is about 1|- ft. high and 
ft. across. It is a Japanese evergreen plant of compact habit, and pale yellow 
flowers like those of Rh. Triflorum ; but blooms much earlier, usually in February. 
Rh. Veitchi and Rh. Nuttalli are not hardy here, and I fear that 
Rh. Oxyphyllum is hopeless. But of other tender varities, Rh. Championae, 
Rh. Dalhousiae, Rh. Edgeworth! and Rh. Ciliicalyx, have so far survived against 
a wall; and in the open Rh. Hybrid Countess of Haddington, Rh. Hybrid 
Fragrantissimum, Rh. Hybrid Sesterianum, Rh. Hybrid Exoniense, Rh. Booth!, 
Rh. Maddeni, Rh. Calophytum, and Rh. Formosum. Rh. Crassum and Rh. 
bullatum, the Chinese forms of Rh. Maddeni and Rh. Edgeworth!, seem to be 
hardier than their Sikkim relatives. 
During the great gale of November, 1915, a very large ehn tree fell on several 
of these sweet-scented varieties and on my only plant of Rh. Hookeri, and 
severely damaged them. 
The following species flowered here for the first time this year :— 
Irroratum forma, from Tali, ten to twelve flowers in a well-shaped truss, 
corolla openly companulate 2J x 2 inches, white tinged with yellow at the base 
and much spotted. 
Adenogynum (587IF), six to eight flowers in a spreading umbel, corolla very 
widely companulate 3 x 2J inches, white with crimson markings. A fine flower 
on a dwarf plant. Rh. Thomson! and Rh. arboreum album set fine pods of 
seed to pollen from this. 
Adenopodum, six to eight flowers in a loose truss, corolla pale rose unspotted, 
2 X 2A inches. 
Bretti (1520W), six to eight flowers in a loose truss, corolla dull white, 
unspotted, 2 x 2-1 inches. 
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