l^fjobolienbron ^ocietp J^otesi. 
were planted among a number of other arboreums of different varieties, none of 
which were touched by them ; and we have never had arboreums injured by 
rabbits before, except by the low trick of burrowing underneath them. 
I should like to ask if others have noticed the very effective way in which the 
hairy variety of Rh. barbatum catches wasps, the gum from the buds exuding 
on to the bristles “bird limes” them; in 1915, numbers were caught and died on 
the buds of my plant. I have never observed this to happen on the ordinary 
variety. 
My plants of rhodothamnus cham^cistus had dwindled to one, so 
remembering a success with Daphne Blagayana I layered all the shoots, and 
it made astonishing growth afterwards ; I hope that this promises success for the 
future. Rhododendron intricatum, and other very dwarf species have also 
been a difficulty here. I am trying the same method with intricatum, and I 
think that the result so far is promising. 
As regards difficulties, since all efforts to coax Rh. Nuttalli, Dalhousi^e 
and CILIICALYX through the winter have been abandoned, very few if any 
rhododendrons have been lost in winter, but I annually lose a few plants, 
generally dwarf varieties, such as intricatum, Edgarianum, and primulinum, 
during the autumn, while I am away in Scotland. I cannot help thinking this is 
largely due to drought. I lost also last September a plant, recently moved, of 
Rh. arboreum blood red, bought from Reuthe, and I have found this 
variety before apparently resent removal, though when established it generally 
does well, and its flowers are but rarely damaged by frost. 
I trust the length, and I fear very humdrum nature, of these notes may be 
pardoned by my readers. 
STEPHENSON R. CLARKE. 
bth February, 1917. 
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