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Under the altered circumstances of cultivation and climate, seedlings of 
Rhododendrons, although bred true, vary in an extraordinary degree. Long 
ago Sir W. Hooker observed that “ no one who has cultivated the Himalayan 
Rhododendron on a large scale can fail to be struck with the numerous sports 
which have already started off from R. ciliatum, Dalhousi^e, campanulatum, 
and ARBOREUM, and which will no doubt soon be accounted as species by 
nurserymen.” The accuracy of this observation has been abundantly proved 
by much that I have heard and seen. 
As far as I can gather, England and Scotland and Ireland, and Belgium and 
Germany and Italy, will soon have interesting and differing tales to tell. 
J. H. M. 
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