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NOTES ON THE GARDEN AT LOGAN, WIGTOWNSHIRE, SCOTLAND. 
Contributed by Kenneth McDouall. 
The Rhododendrons now growing here contain most of the Indian species in 
cultivation, some hybrids, and a good many Chinese varieties ; the former are 
still in their infancy, and the latter, grown from Wilson’s seed, are quite young 
plants. All however are growing remarkably well, and many have already 
flowered. 
That these plants will grow and do well in this district there is little doubt, 
provided they are guarded against the evils, which unless protected from, would 
seriously damage their health ; the first, if there is wind, they must have com¬ 
parative shelter from the violent gales which blow during the winter months 
from south-west, west, and north-west, and in the spring, east and south-east 
winds must be kept off. Here, where we have the sea all round us, only a mile 
distant to the west, and a mile away to the east, it is not possible to find a spot 
as sheltered as one would wish. Then late frosts which in some years occur in 
April and May, fortunately not often, do much damage to the young growing 
shoots of the Rhododendrons. 
Drought also must be guarded against, especially when the plants are young, 
and in recent years we have experienced some dry summers here. We have to 
protect the plants too against roe-deer, as the bucks single out these 
Rhododendrons to rub their horns on, and have completely destroyed several 
plants in this way. They will also eat the leaves, and I have seen young Rhodo¬ 
dendrons completely stripped of their leaves by roe-deer, and never able to 
recover, though the wood and buds had not been touched. 
For some time I had been looking for a new site for m}}- Himalayan 
Rhododendrons, where the troubles that I have just mentioned would be 
minimised, and felt that if they were to be moved at all the time had arrived to 
do it. They are now in their new quarters, moved there last November, where I 
think they will have many advantages over the old. I hesitated long about 
moving them, because they were doing so well, yet I was not quite satisfied, the 
situation was too low, moreover, rock was near the surface, and the soil was apt 
to become dry in summer, while in spring, late frosts sometimes caught the young 
growth. I felt there should be a remedy for these things. Before deciding upon 
the new site I transplanted there two Rh. Auckland!, leaving the other where it 
was ; this species was the only one which always lost some of its growing shoots. 
The two plants received no check, while the other one suffered as usual. The 
success of this experiment decided me to move all the Indian Rhododendrons 
with the exception of Rh. arboreum. The new site is on a steep hill slope facing 
north-east, and is a clearing in a wood. The soil is a good sandy loam, well 
drained, yet retensive of moisture ; the atmosphere is moist and more than a few 
degrees of frost should not bother the Rhododendrons here ; the early morning 
sun will not shine on the plants after a night of frost. The place, too, is sheltered 
from the wind to a great extent though not so much as I would like. Here 
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