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AZALEA indica: alba. 
Pure white Azalea indica. 
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PENTANDRIA MONOGYNIA. 
"Nat. ord. RuopopEnpra. © Juss. gen. 158.: 
Div. I. Corolla monopetala. fai 
AZALEA. Supra vol. 2. fol. 120. 
A. indica Be subsolitariis, calycibus pilasis. Sp. plant. 214. . Willd. 
Cistus indicus, ledi alpini foliis, floribus amplis. Herm. lugdb. 152. t. 153. 
Raii hist.1895. 
Tecki Tsjocku, vulgd Tsutsusi. Kempf. amen. exot. 845. 
A. indica. Ait. Kew. ed, 2. 2,318. Pers. syn.1.212. Bot. mag. t. 1480. 
Rom. et Sch. sp. pl. 4. 374. Anderson in Hort. trans. 2. 259. 
The drawing of this fine acquisition to our conserva- 
tories was made at Mr. Brookes’s Nursery, Ball’s Pond. It 
was received by him from China in 1819, with the double 
purple variety, from his collector, Mr. Jos. Poole. 
A-hardy greenhouse plant, propagated by cuttings. It 
is easily kept in a common greenhouse or cold frame during 
the winter; care being taken that the plants receive a little 
additional warmth in the spring, and shade during the 
summer. The plant from which our drawing was taken 
was about four feet high, and covered all over with blos- 
soms. ‘ 
The Chinese, and especially the Japanese, cultivate a great 
variety of Azalea indica, of which a very few of the kinds 
are known in England, four varieties only having yet been’ 
introduced ; viz. the common Single Red, the Double Pur- 
ple, the Pure White, and the Orange. The following list 
of varieties has been formed from the best authorities, and 
may serve to excite some enterprizing collector to use his 
endeavours to procure them. There are two distinct divi- 
sions of the varieties; the first containing those which flower 
in the spring, the other such as blossom in the autumn. 
Of the latter none have yet been introduced, and when 
seen will, we think, be found to be specifically distinct from 
the Vernal sorts. / 
