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The Garden, April 29i/i, 1882. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, April 25ih. 
The following new plants were awarded first-class certificates by the Floral 
Committee :— 
Rhododendron " Alice Mangles.” A splendid hybrid, raised by Mr, 
Mangles, Valewood, Haslemere, between R. Aucklandii and the common 
R. PONTICUM. The progeny is intermediate between the parents, and distinct 
from both. The flowers produced in a huge loose truss, nine inches high and as 
much across, are between four inches and five inches across, shallowly bell¬ 
shaped, of a most delicate rose-pink, flushed with a deeper hue. The foliage 
is large and very vigorous, indicating a fine constitution. This variety is 
certainly one of the most beautiful of all Rhododendrons, and probably hardy. 
Shown by the raiser. 
Rhododendrons. Mr. Mangles exhibited a collection of species and 
hybrids, of which the following were particularly worthy of note: Hybrid between 
R. Griffithianum and R. ponticum, partaking much of the character of the 
former species in flower and foliage, with ten very large pale pink flowers 
arranged in a pyramid, the stamens varying in number. The leaves are very 
large, of a rich dark green. This hybrid blossomed for the first time, and is 
eight years old, and is hardier and dwarfer than R. Griffithianum. It is the 
first of a large series of plants raised from similar crosses. Hybrid between 
Azalea mollis (male) and R. ponticum (female), having the hairy corolla of 
the former, but with evergreen leaves—the converse cross will not succeed. 
Hybrid, raised by Mr. Parker, the offspring of the hybrid " Countess of 
Haddington,” crossed by R. Edgeworthii. It has large, white, scented 
flowers, tubular, with a dash of lemon at the base of the corolla. Of species, he 
exhibited R. glaucum, dwarf, and densely covered with pink, bell-shaped 
flowers, and highly aromatic. R. Thomsonii and R. Cham^ecistus, an Alpine 
species received from Mr. Otto Forster, from the Austrian Alps. It is a lime 
loving plant, with pink flowers. Mr. Mangles also showed interesting hybrids 
from Mr. Luscombe’s gardener (Mr. Dawe); also R. Falconeri (?) from Captain 
Rogers, of River Hill. 
