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EFFECT OF THE WINTER OF 1916-1917 ON RHODODENDRONS 
AT LEONARDSLEE. 
Contributed by Sir Edmund Loder, Bart. 
On the whole it may be said that the bulk of the Rhododendrons came 
through the trying time very weU. 
R. BULLATUM was kiUed; also a plant of R. Fordii ; but another plant of 
the same species was hardly touched. 
The largest and oldest plant of blood red arboreum was quite uninjured, 
but other varieties, Kermesinum, etc., were badly scorched and cut about, but 
they have recovered well. 
R. LINEARIFOLIUM, R. SUBLANCEOLATUM and R. MUCRONULATUM Were CUt 
back but are breaking again. 
A hybrid raised here between R. ciliatum and R. Edgeworthii was also 
injured in some degree. 
Several varieties of R. indicum (greenhouse Azaleas) came through with very 
little damage. 
R. Griffithianum (Aucklandii) was uninjured both as to leaf and flowers ; 
but the flower buds of R. calophyllum were frozen through and destroyed 
although the plant itself was unhurt. 
The buds of R. calophyllum are destroyed by frost nearly every winter; 
it is very seldom that we get any display of its flowers here. 
R. FORMOSUM (R. Gibsonii) is much the same ; the flower buds are nearly 
always killed by frost, but this year the plant itself was also injured. 
R. NERiiFOLiUM was not hurt at all, R. Delavayi, R. camelli^florum and 
R. spinuliferum (imder a wall) are scarcely touched. 
Some of the leaves of the large foliage species, R. Falconeri, R. grande, 
R. Hodgsonii, etc., are deformed or curled at the tips. I put this down to their 
being frozen in the bud. 
EDMUND GILES LODER. 
November, 1917. 
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