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RHODODENDRON DELAVAYI AT KILMACURRAGH. 
Contributed by Sir Frederick W. Moore. 
There is at Kilniacurragh, Rathdrum, Co. Wicklow, a remarkable plant of 
the rare Rhododendron DelavaY i. It is 12 feet high, and 13 feet through, and 
flowers regularly. In habit it resembles some of the red flowered forms of 
R. ARBOREUM, upright in growth, but with more slender branches, and branched 
to the ground. The leaves are smaller than those of R. arboreum, a little more 
lanceolate in shape, and more acute at the apex. They are silvery-white under¬ 
neath, and a darker shade of green on the upper surface than those of 
R. ARBOREUM. The flowers are borne in dense heads, a little smaller than those 
of R. ARBOREUM, and are dark-red in colour, several shades darker than any 
flowers of R. arboreum which I have seen. This plant was originally sent to 
the Jardin des Plantes with R. lacteum, R. yunnanense, R. decorum, and 
others of that set. It was sent to Ireland as a small seedling very shortly after 
its introduction. 
F. W. MOORE. 
January, 1918. 
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