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♦CHINESE RHODODENDRONS INTRODUCED TO CULTIVATION 
IN EUROPE, WITH NAMES OF RAISER AND INTRODUCER AND 
DATE OF INTRODUCTION. 
Contributed by Professor Bayley Balfour, F.R.S. 
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. 
In a letter to Mr, Eley, dated 9th January, 1918, Professor Bayley Balfour 
writes:— 
" In response to your suggestion that I should write something for the 
forthcoming ‘ Notes ’ of the Rhododendron Society, I send herewith a statement 
which I have prepared to show the Rhododendrons now in cultivation that 
have come to us from China and the bordering regions of Tibet and Burma, 
giving also the date of introduction of the species, the name of the raiser and 
of the introducer of the plant in cultivation. Although the inflow of these new 
Chinese Rhododendrons dates only from the late years of last century, it is not 
easy in some cases to obtain precise information about the date of their intro¬ 
duction or as to who really introduced them. But I think it is worth while to 
try to determine these points and it seems to me there could be no more fitting 
place than the ‘ Notes ’ of your Society for the publication of a record of the 
kind, and perhaps if you publish the list it may bring welcome and useful criticism 
and correction. I have dready embodied corrections made by Professor Sargent, 
Mr. Watson, of Kew, and Mr. J. C. Williams, of Caerhays, to all of whom I am 
indebted for assistance. To M. Maurice de Vihnorin I have not applied 
in vain, and still hope to obtain much valuable information from him. The 
early French introductions are the most difficult to determine and to date. Of 
the species named in the Fruticetum Vilmoriniamun, published in 1904, all 
may not be in cultivation now, and certainly R. campylogynum which is in the 
list has only come into cultivation in Britain through the plants raised by Mr. 
J. C. Williams, from Forrest’s seeds. 
The list is tentative and I send it in the hope of getting information.” 
For the purpose of record, and with the approval of Professor Balfour, the 
following brief particulars of the raisers and introducers are added :— 
Bees. The firm of Bees, Ltd., of Liverpool. Proprietor, Mr. A. K. Bulley, 
of Ness, Neston, Cheshire. 
Brookes, Samuel. A nurseryman, of Northampton Nursery, Ball’s Pond, 
Newington Green. 
Browne, Major C. W., Survey of India. 
* Including adjacent Tibet and Burma. 
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