®|)e 3eit)otJobenbron ^ocietp i^otesi. 
and winter frosts had no ill effects ; all went well till Easter, but then the too 
precocious buds, though scarcely showing they were swelling, received within 
the fatal and blackening stroke. 
It is curious to observe how Mr. Scott’s seedlings vary from nearly white to 
a deep rich crimson. For my own information I have made an elaborate note 
of all the peculiarities, but I need not trouble you with it here. 
Suffice it to add that the pollen-parent by no means asserts an universal 
supremacy ; although, as it contributed one-half of the blood as against one- 
fourth each of the two other factors, such a result might have been expected. 
The habit of the plants is compact and bushy, the size of the flowers midway 
between the parents, the scent fainter than that of R. Aucklandii, but very 
perceptible. If these seedlings prove to be as hardy southwards as they have 
shown themselves to be in Edinburgh, they will be real beauty-acquisitions to all 
Rhododendron cultivators, beyond their interest from a scientific point of view. 
The moral of this paper is that there is much to be done and much to be learnt 
in the cultivation of my favourite plant. 
The cross which I have celebrated may have been (perhaps by Mr. Luscombe, 
perhaps by Mr. Boscawen), effected elsewhere, but I worfld use it merely as an 
illustration of the deep and varied interest which gathers around these floral 
experiments. How many subjects have been glanced at which might provoke 
to unending thought and observation a whole army of Rhododendron growers, 
or, indeed, earnest cultivators of any plant. As we advance. Nature is always 
presenting fresh problems for solution. So much the better, provided we arm 
ourselves with intelligent and industrious research, and German concentration, 
to meet the emergency. 
J. H. M. 
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