This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
We are also indebted to the same source for the following selection of choicest, hardy varieties:
A large, white flower; plant exceedingly well adapted to standards.
Lilac blush.
Dark rose color.
A very bright cherry; one of the best.
The best pure white.
Rosy lilac, with crimson petals and yellow eye; very fine.
A rosy crimson with large truss.
A deep rose, inclining to crimson; is an abundant bloomer, and one of the most valuable sorts.
The very best of its color.
Purple, fine and showy.
Rosy tinted; fine.
The above lists will be found valuable for future reference by all who intend to plant - as the selection has been carefully pruned down to ten of the very finest of each class. No one who has planted either Rhododendrons or Azaleas freely, has ever failed to reap abundant satisfaction.
 
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