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Gardeners’ Chronicle, April 2^th, 1882. 
Rhododendrons. Numerous cut specimens were shown and commented 
on by Mr. Mangles. From the Royal Gardens, Kew, came a truss of 
R. Aucklandii (or Griffithianum var. Aucklandii), for comparison with a 
hybrid variety to be mentioned hereafter ; flowers of R. Maddenii, a very 
fragrant form, which has the merit of blooming when in a small state ; and a 
magnificent truss of R. “ Broughtonii.” Mr. Mangles showed a hybrid of his 
own raising named “ Alice Mangles,” a very beautiful form, with bold 
oblanceolate leaves, and a magnificent, but rather loose conicle truss of large 
lilac nodding bells about four inches in diameter, six-lobed, and each supported 
on a long spreading stalk. It was raised from the pollen of R. Aucklandii on the 
stigma of R. ponticum. The calyx, which in Aucklandii is broadly and 
irregularly cup-shaped, with shallow lobes of which two are much larger than 
the others, was here six-lobed, and the twelve stamens of unequal lengths. 
R. “ EDiNENSE ” raised by Mr. Anderson-Henry from R. " Henryanum,” 
crossed with the pollen of R. Nuttallii; R. “Henryanum” itself being a 
hybrid between R. Dalhousi^ and R. formosum. 
An unnamed hybrid of great interest and no little beauty was also shown by 
Mr. Mangles, who raised it between Azalea mollis as the male parent and 
R. PONTICUM.* It has something of the foliage of R. mollis, but evergreen ; 
the flowers are borne in a terminal raceme with long ascending stalks ; the 
corollas, which measure 2| inches across and which otherwise are like those of 
R. ponticum, are slightly hairy, as in Azalea mollis. The stamens are ten, 
filaments declinate of unequal length. 
R. Dalhousi^, with greenish-yellow flowers of the fashionable tint 
facetiously described as ‘‘ Greenery-yallery, Grosvenor Gallery”; the species as 
growing wild in Sikkim, and as figured in Sir Joseph Hooker’s Rhododendrons 
OF Sikkim-Himalaya, being white. 
A hybrid between R. campylocarpum, male, and R. ” John Waterer,” \Hth 
the form of flower of the former, with something of the colour and markings of 
the latter. 
R. Glaucum, with small rosy-pink flowers in a dense truss, and with a strong 
aromatic perfume. 
A hybrid between R. ” Henryanum ” (above described), and the pollen of 
R. Edgeworthii. 
R. Thomsonii, with the blood-red tubular flowers supported by a large 
entire cup-shaped calyx. 
* In the margin opposite this passage is written “ ? R. Littleworth Glory,” 
see Gardening Illustrated, December 6th, 1913, and Gardeners’ 
Magazine, June 3rd, 1911. 
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