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Gardeners’ Chronicle, April dth , 1881. 
Hybrid Rhododendron. [Some time since Mr. Shepperd sent us flowers 
of a beautiful and fragrant hybrid Rhododendron, raised between R. Gibsonii 
and R. Edgeworthii. Anxious to get the opinion of. a specialist famed for 
his knowledge and interest in these plants, we submitted them to Mr. Mangles, 
who obliges us with the following note concerning them.— Eds.] “ The hybrid 
is, as described, a cross between Gibsonii and Edgeworthii.* The first of this 
cross was raised by Rinz & Co., of Frankfurt, and many years ago described in 
Gartenflora, XIII., p. 86, but I believe described wrongly, under the name 
R. ‘ Sesterianum.’ The mistake in the description is making R. Edgeworthii 
the female parent. The cross was, I believe, the other way. Since then many 
similar hybrids have been raised and sent out tmder various names, although 
almost precisely the same thing. I have now about a hundred seedlings of 
the same cross three or four inches high, but I doubt if I shall improve 
upon R. ‘ Sesterianum.’ ” 
* See note on page 49. 
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