^t}t 3i^i)obotienbron ^ocietp ^otes; 
Here again is an error, the female parent of “ Countess of Haddington ” 
being R. ciliatum, and not R. formosum. Thus one of your contemporaries 
wrote many years ago ;— 
“ Among new plants by far the most striking was the lovely seedling 
R. ‘Countess of Haddington,’ exhibited by Mr. Lees, of Tynninghame 
Gardens. This is a real gem, being a cross between R. ciliatum and Dalhousi^, 
showing the stiff compact habit of the former, with vastly superior foliage, and 
the sweetness and beauty of the latter.” I quote this passage as the first to hand, 
but the pedigree has been often given correctly, and I think the plant speaks 
for itself. 
J. H. M. 
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