. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MAY AND JUNE. 61 dron, as a rule, has double that number. The flow- ers of the azalea appear with or precede the leaves; the rhododendron flowers later, in early summer, and usually grows on the mountain side. Emerson's rhodora (Rhododendron rhodora) is a low-growing shrub about two feet high, with hardly any other superfi- cial appearance to distinguish it from R. nudijlorum, except it be the superiority of its ma- genta-pink color, its small co- rolla which is three-lobed above and two-lipped below, and its shorter stamens. I never was fortuna
. Familiar flowers of field and garden;. Botany. MAY AND JUNE. 61 dron, as a rule, has double that number. The flow- ers of the azalea appear with or precede the leaves; the rhododendron flowers later, in early summer, and usually grows on the mountain side. Emerson's rhodora (Rhododendron rhodora) is a low-growing shrub about two feet high, with hardly any other superfi- cial appearance to distinguish it from R. nudijlorum, except it be the superiority of its ma- genta-pink color, its small co- rolla which is three-lobed above and two-lipped below, and its shorter stamens. I never was fortunate enough to find either of these varieties in New Hampshire among the hills. In Massachusetts both are quite common. The strik- ing resemblance of the rhodora to honeysuckle will be at once perceived; but they are not related to each other. The rhododendron is not so common in onr Eastern States; it is far more plentiful among the Alleghany Moun- tains, where it grows luxuriantly un- der the softened light of the half-lit woods. It is evidently too cold for the shrub in the woods of the. Rhodora. Great Laurel, or Bhododendron, Bhododendron Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938. New York, D. Appleton and Co
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