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R. SALIGNUM (lepidotum var. CHLORANTHUM, Hook. fil.) had one flower, 
and is hardly as attractive as Hooker’s plate makes it, being a rather dull yellow 
with brown spots, instead of white with green ones. 
R. 885W Houlstonii (?) or discolor (?) flowered for the second time—the 
first being in 1912 —opening on July 8th, when almost everything else was over ; 
six to nine flowers on a truss, seven lobed, two by three inches, blush-white with 
pink buds ; pinker on the outside, and with a large blotch of crimson in the 
interior, shading off all round to yellow and then to blush, and slightly scented. 
In another plant the flowers were pinker and the crimson blotch less pronounced. 
On Rhododendron No. 104, caucasicum stramineum x campylocarpum 
developed an imperfect flower in August. It is a good yellow with red spots and 
the plant has an excellent habit. It developed a good pod of seed to 
R. ADENOGYNUM. 
In October, a rogue very near to R. trichocladum flowered. It has smaller 
leaves and small yellow flowers, three or four in a truss, about an inch across. 
Professor Balfour tells me that it is R. xanthinum. 
Also in October, R. 6780F neriiflorum produced a beautiful flower. It is 
a small growing plant with a loose truss of twelve flowers, 2 by If inch, unspotted, 
with a rather narrow tube opening out at the mouth, and of the same colour as 
the lighter varieties of R. Thomsonii. The calyx is the same shade as the corolla 
and the flower rather waxy. It should be a good plant with which to hybridise, 
and bring purity of colour into some of the hardy hybrids. 
I do not know whether a list of the plants flowering in the later months of the 
year is of any interest, but such as they are here it is, though it must be under¬ 
stood that they were often isolated flowers and by no means so good as those 
produced in the Spring. 
August. INTRICATUM ; 12623F (hippoph^oides ?) ; anthopogon ; Keysii ; 
“ Govenianum ” ; retusum (indoors) ; adenogynum —some plants pinker 
than others ; cephalanthoides ; l6035F (scintillans) ; and caucasicum 
STRAMINEUM X CAMPYLOCARPUM. 
September. 5865F (rupicolum) ; flavidum : and forms of fastigiatum. 
October, trichocladum ; oreotrephes ; neriiflorum ; oreodoxa ; 
LEPIDOTUM : XANTHINUM. 
November, oreotrephes, fastigiatum and parvifolium. 
December, parvifolium, dauricum and mucronulatum. 
With regard to seedling hybrids :— 
In the LEPIDOTUM x Boothii lot, from seed sown in 1916, the pollen parent 
has come through strongly, and the leaf is very distinct, contrasting with a few 
plants of apparently pure lepidotum, which are among the seedlings. R. 
GLAUCUM X Boothii, of which there are but two plants, sown in 1915, are also 
very distinct, and came through last winter’s frost in the open undamaged. 
So also did Aucklandii x bullatum, and here again there are but two plants 
about one foot high, from seed sown in 1903. R. “ Mrs. Butler ” x Augustinii 
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