The varieties of Indian or Chinese Azaleas are now so numerous, that to select twelve only, "doctors will disagree," yet I do unceremoniously say, that for all decorative purposes, the dozen is ample.

Alba maculata, large, pure white, spotted with greenish yellow.

Beauty of Europe, blush white, striped with dark red,

Duke of Wellington, bright scarlet crimson.

Latsbitia, salmon - a dwarf variety, and shows best when grafted.

Maitlandii, pure rose and white striped; is also a dwarf kind, and should be grafted on a stronger sort.

Narcissiflora, a very double pure white.

Optima, rosy salmon.

Pride of Dorking, dark crimson purple.

Rubbo-pleno, very large, double orange scarlet.

Splendens, salmon; not so handsome in shape, but very abundant of bloom.

Vittata punctata, spotted salmon white and rose.

Vesta, pure icy white - dwarf habit. Amongst these you see some of our oldest varieties, with a sprinkling of the very rarest, omitting Amenta, Bealii, and some other of our nurserymen's crack sorts, which ate, for all useful purposes,' really useless, except for the attraction of their high prices.