is 2 inches long and 3 inches broad with 
dark spoting in the upper petals.” Our 
stock was obtained from Exbury and 
the flowers opened on April 6th. They 
tally with the official description in 
every respect except that the flowers 
opened a scarlet and faded to a deep 
rose. Medium habit. 
IDEALIST A. M. 1945 (Wardii x Naomi) 
Described in the 1946 Rhododendron 
Year Book as follows ‘‘this hybrid has 
bold trusses of ten to twelve wide cam- 
panulate flowers which are very pale 
Greenish Yellow (H..C. 663/2).’’ Bloom- 
ed at Brooks in May. Medium habit. 
IVANHOE A. M. 1945 (Chanticleer x Grier- 
sonianum) Described in the 1946 Rhodo- 
dendron Year Book as follows ‘“‘fine 
trusses of wide campanulate flowers, 
about 3% inches across of a brilliant 
red color (H. C. C. 020) very faintly 
mottled on the upper petals in a darker 
shade of the same red.” An Exbury 
hybrid of medium habit blooming in 
May. 
KARKOV A. M. 1947 (Griersonianum x Red 
Admiral) Described in the 1947 Rhodo- 
dendron Year Book as “A very attractive 
variety with a compact globular truss 
of about 16 flowers on short glandular 
pedicels. The funnel shaped five lobed 
corolla is 8 inches long and measures 
3% inches across the crimped and 
waved mouth. In color it is a uniform 
carmine’ rose, faintly and_ evenly 
spotted.”” Dull green foliage, medium 
habit, blooms in May. 
MARGARET DUNN VAR. GOLDEN BELLE 
(discolor x Fabia) Henny & Brydon No. 
160. An excellent clone out of the Mar- 
garet Dunn cross, similar in many re- 
spects to the variety Talisman but with 
larger flowers and deeper yellow in 
the throat. Really quite an outstanding 
variety and something quite different 
in Rhododendrons. Bloomed in May at 
Brooks, of easy growth and medium 
habit. 
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