Excerpt from The Gardener, 1871: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture Rhododendrons, the pride of European gardens, as they are of their native wilds - so wrote the great Loudon nearly fifty years ago, when very few species or varieties were either known or cultivated in Europe and even many of these, though deeply interesting and worthy of careful cultivation, by no means conspicuous or striking as decorative plants. The gorgeous Indian R. Arboreum was but recently introduced, and had not yet bloomed in this country, though wondrous things were said of its tree - habit and dark-crimson blossoms and as yet the still popular R. Ponticum, Oatawbiense, Caucasicum, maxi mum, ferrugineum, and hirsutum, and a few of their varieties, very nearly made up the list of what we may term showy sorts, though all were worthy of the high praise which was accorded to them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.