Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . s a copiously branchedelegant shrub six feet high, not unlike the common , except that the branches are longer and stifferand they are clothed in spring with paper-white flowers. Camellias as hardy shrubs are receiving attention in thesouth of England, where they are proving as hardy as thecommon Laurel and as floriferous as the Pontic Rhododen-dron, so that the leading nurserymen in Devon and Corn-wall are working up large stocks of them. At Kew theyare hardy, and this year they are flowering well. C. re- Ap
Garden and forest; a journal of horticulture, landscape art and forestry . s a copiously branchedelegant shrub six feet high, not unlike the common , except that the branches are longer and stifferand they are clothed in spring with paper-white flowers. Camellias as hardy shrubs are receiving attention in thesouth of England, where they are proving as hardy as thecommon Laurel and as floriferous as the Pontic Rhododen-dron, so that the leading nurserymen in Devon and Corn-wall are working up large stocks of them. At Kew theyare hardy, and this year they are flowering well. C. re- April 15, 1896.] Garden and Forest. ticulata, the Pseony-flowered species from the mountains ofHong Kong, is thriving in the open against a wall. We haveonly lately awoke to the value of Azalea Indica as a hardyshrub, and the Camellia bids fair to accompany its coun- 155 time in our southern states. The white Azalea Indicahas proved hardy, with proper care, in the latitude of thiscity.—Ed.] Rhododendron-, Otto Forster.—This is a hybrid between i ^^\\ H^Srojff>&. Fig. 21.—Oreodoxa regia, in Florida.—See page 152. tryman in its migration from the greenhouse to the open air. [Those who have seen the great Camellias in the old gardens at Drayton Manor, near Charleston (see vol. ii., p. 129), can realize the splendor of these trees at flowering Rhododendron Veitchianum ami R. Edgeworthii, two ofthe most distinct of the Himalayan species. It was raiseda few years ago by Mr. O. Forster, of Lehenhof, Austria,from whom plants of it were secured for Kew, when- it is 156 Garden and Forest. [Number 425. now in flower in the temperate house. It has inherited allthe good qualities of the flowers of both of its parents andnone of their bad qualities of habit. It forms a shapelyshrub four feet high, clothed with dark green, wrinkledovate leaves, and bearing loose clusters of large elegantpure white fragrant flowers. Among the hybrid Rhodo-dendrons grown for the greenhouse I should pla
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