that can
| | |be grown out of doors near
| | |London. In Cornwall and
| | |similar places it is
| | |magnificent. It only just
| | |escapes being hardy, and
| | |can be grown out of doors
| | |in tubs for the greater
| | |part of the year. Some of
| | |the best specimens in the
| | |country have, in fact, been
| | |grown in this way. Even
| | |when placed under glass
| | |little or no fire-heat is
| | |needed. We know plants that
| | |have stood 18 deg. of frost
| | |without injury. It is
| | |remarkable that this
| | |Rhododendron has not been
| | |used more for hybridising.
| | |Most people seem to have
| | |been slow in awakening to
| | |its value, and although, at
| | |the present time, there are
| | |doubtless thousands of
| | |young hybrids from it in
| | |existence, it will be some
| | |years before they flower.
| | |There are, however, a few
| | |hybrids that are hardy and
| | |very beautiful.
| | |
*R. kewense |A hybrid between|Delicate |This was raised at Kew in
|R. griffithianum|rose, |1875, but did not flower
|and R. Aucklandi|passing to|until fourteen y