Trees And Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles volume 2
Trees And Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles volume 2
W J William Jackson Bean
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Fortune's rhododendron has in recent years acquired a revived interest in giving birth to a new, distinct, and beautiful race of hardy kinds. The first experiments in hybridising this species were made by Mr Luscombe, an amateur residing in Devonshire ; crossing it with R. Thomsoni, he obtained the fine R. Luscombei and Liiscombei splefidens. Crossing it with garden varieties, he obtained the two kinds afterwards named " Mrs Thiselton-Dyer" and " Frances Thiselton-Dyer. " These crosses appear t...o have been made about 1880. Soon after that date Mr G. Paul of Cheshunt made an extensive series of crosses, with R. Fortunei as the seed-bearing parent. From these, some scores of varieties were obtained that may be said to have laid the foundation of the new Fortunei race, the value of which is that they flower earlier than the great mass of catawbiense and ponticum hybrids, and thus help to extend the rhododendron season. And they have, besides their lovely and delicate colouring, often the additional charm of a fragrance inherited from R.
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