Ct)e 3^l)olioljenJ)ron ^ocietp ^otE£!. 
Sphaeranthum (or ledioides ?), (11246F), a small leaved high alpine, ten to 
twelve flowers in a compact umble, clear rose, unspotted, ^ X | inch. A most 
attractive little plant with flowers resembling a daphne. 
Rh. (4238W), reputed a form of Augustinii, flowered for the second time, and 
is the most beautiful lavender blue I have seen. 
Rh. prostratum (5862F), flowered again, and I have a number of seedlings 
from it X fastigiatum, but it is yet too early to see whether the cross has taken. 
The most noteworthy of the hybrids raised here are as follows :— 
Campylocarpum x Auckland!, usually with a pale lemon flower, but one plant 
produced this year flowers of a curious pink tinged with yeUow. 
(648AW) X Auckland! (Caerhays seed) ; ciliatum x Keiskei (to flower 1917), 
argenteum hybrid x Fortune!, Auckland! x bullatum (this has a poor con¬ 
stitution), maximum X houlstoni, ambiguum X Keys! (to flower 1917), 
Keiskei x arboreum, Kewense X decorum, Keiskei X lutescens, Comubia x 
Sutchuenense, cinnabarinum x crassum, Kingianum x Mrs. KingsmiU 
(campylocarpum x Auckland!), arboreum x Sutchuenense, arboreum album 
X campylocarpum, glaucum x Boothi, Lepidotum x Boothi, Keiskei X 
fastigiatum, Mrs. Butler x Augustinii, Decorum x fictolacteum (Verrieres 
seed, and a poor lot, which may not survive), Yunnanense X Cinnabarinum, and 
campylocarpum X Mrs. Butler. 
Seedlings of Rh. Wight!, from seed kindly sent by Miss Mangles, are 
growing well, though slowly. 
Seedlings of Ungerni (Tregrehan seed), proved difficult to raise, being very 
liable to damp off, as also were seedlings of lanatum (Caerhays seed). 
Notable hybrids here from other sources are :— 
Blood-red arboreum x Thomson! (Caerhays), Loderi (Leonardslea), though 
I fear this is dying ; and Smirnowi X fictolacteum, Kewense X fictolacteum, 
Harrovianuni X lutescens (all from Verrieres). 
Some parts of the garden are very damp, and many plants rot at the root and 
die, chief among them this year being the only plant of Rh. longistylum (1204W). 
The use of moorland peat, since discontinued, would seem to be responsible 
for many of these deaths. 
Rabbits attack a number of rhododendrons here, especially when first planted. 
Rh. rupicolum (5865F) always a difficult plant, has been the worst sufferer, but 
they will also eat oleifolium, lanatum, hirsutum, ferrugineum, tenellum, 
serpyllifolium, trichocladum, fastigiatum, Keiskei X arboreum, ciliatum X 
Keiskei, and rubiginosum. 
E. J. P. MAGOR. 
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