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Mr. George Harrow from Wilson’s 885—887, etc., show constant evidence of it, 
and they are some of them of great beauty with a nice scent, coming into flower 
in July. 
R.Fittianum is one of the smaller species; say 3 to 4 feet high at a guess,which 
was found as a rogue in 10278. It was a nice lavender flower imder glass, but 
the buds outside just met the worst frost, and it changed their colour, after that 
they set good seed, and the plant is I believe quite hardy, coming from 12,000 feet. 
R. H^MATODES 6773 is a very beautiful dwarf shrub, with blooms of a vivid 
ruby crimson, it will flower on plants 3 to 6 inches high, and is spreading rather 
than upright in its growth. It is hardy, and some plants flower in the autumn. 
R. HiPPOPH^oiDES 10333. . This plant when many seedlings are opening 
together gives a great variety of beautiful lavender-hlac flowers, and they are 
larger than aU others of this section so far. It should not face the fuU sun 
I think. It is quite hardy. 
R. LEDOIDES 11246. Is a shrub of about 2 feet (Forrest says). Its flowers 
are white to pink when they first open, and the flower is like that of a small 
daphne, with a nice little truss. It seems hardy. 
R. MOLLICOMUM 10347. Is a shrub of 4 to 6 feet, those which have flowered 
have been a pleasant pink colour, and range from light to a darker pink. In 
some aspects it is rather like one of the small species of fuchsia, not the trade 
forms. I doubt its being hardy a cold country. 
R. CALLiMORPHUM 9055. It flowered in 1917 at a httle over four years old, 
and on several different plants, it has a very round dark leaf, a truss of pink 
flowers of a very pleasant colour, and with a dark pink blotch, the flowers are 
rather like orbiculare in shape, but are a good deal smaller. It hcis set seed to 
other pollen but not to its own pollen, and the pods are larger than those of 
CAMPYLOCARPUM and even more hooked, but the natural size may have been 
increased by the use of alien pollen. 
R. SCINTILLANS 10014. Is of the INTRICATUM section, and is hardly second 
to 10333 in its beauty of colour, the best forms being of a delightful 
lavender-blue, but it has not such striking fohage as 10333 to contrast with the 
flower. 
R. RUPICOLUM 5865 and 10314. This plant has flowered in several gardens 
since 1914, but is interesting in that it is growing freely here in a border full of 
lime and in full sun; this was made for Iris Lortetii, it has grown well there, 
and perhaps better than in peat. 
R. NERliFLORUM 6780, etc. This has the brilliant blood-red colour of the 
best Indian arboreum, but is hardy, the Tah form is given by Forrest imder 
6780 as 2 to 3 feet high, but 8939 from the Shweh Salwin is given as a shrub 
of 15 to 20 feet, and if as hardy as the Tali plant ought to be of service in pro¬ 
ducing hardy red Rhododendrons which I have not seen in the trade varieties. 
R. IRRORATUM 5851. Is as a rule identical with the picture of it in the Bot. 
Mag., though it is not quite so plain, but it also produces in a big batch of 
seedlings, forms of a creamy-yellow without the spots, and these are very nice 
and particularly refined flowers. 
J. C. WILLIAMS. 
November, 1917. 
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