Any shrub of the genus Rhododendron evergreen shrubs or small shrubby trees having leathery leaves and showy clusters of campanulate (bell-shaped) flowers

Usage examples of rhododendron.

Chapter Eight The chateau, a modern building in Italian style, with two projecting wings and three flights of steps, lay at the foot of an immense green-sward, on which some cows were grazing among groups of large trees set out at regular intervals, while large beds of arbutus, rhododendron, syringas, and guelder roses bulged out their irregular clusters of green along the curve of the gravel path.

Besides the lovely arrangements of cut flowers, there were eight-foot tall areca palms in strategic locations, succulent jade, rhododendrons.

Bridge, but not so much to my taste as the auriculas and rhododendrons which grow upon the rocks that flank it.

This plain was practically bare, but Caracol Dagh was thickly covered with dwarf oak and scrub, and Anzac with a good undergrowth of rhododendron, veronica, and other similar bushes.

I like: Azalea, basil, bean, corn, daffodil, fuchsia, freesia, grape, ginger, holly, hibiscus, parsley, poppy, sage, sunflower and rhododendron.

She walked hurriedly up the garden path, between the blooming puce rhododendrons, flowering puce gladioli, glorious puce sunflowers and spreading puce spruce trees and looking left and right and up and down as well, slipped behind the trellis work that hid the two puce dustbins and the garden shed, all painted puce.

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Ballantyne Bras, sponsors a contestant in the Miss Rhododendron pageant every year.

Smithson mused thus, alone and in the darkness, Montesma and Lady Lesbia were wandering arm in arm in another and lovelier part of the grounds, where golden lights were scattered like Cuban fire-flies among the foliage of seringa and magnolia, arbutus and rhododendron, while at intervals a sudden flush of rosier light was shed over garden and river, as if by enchantment, surprising a couple here and there in the midst of a flirtation which had begun in darkness.

Often, on descending into the narrow vallies, we found a little spot of cultivation, a garden or a field, hedged round with shumacs, rhododendrons, and azalias, and a cottage covered with roses.

Where even the rhododendrons wilted and died, the bloodroot flowers flourished in the hot summer.

In their places are put more laurels, cedar deodaras, various evergreens, rhododendrons, planes.

And if you examine heather through a strong magnifying-glass, it is like milk-wort, Epilobium in Latin or a rhododendron, or like an elm tree, which is nothing more nor less than a huge nettle.

Rhododendron Hill: an area of gingerbready Victorian houses and ancient trees arching across the street.

Rattle-snake Reason and instinct Recapitulation, general Reciprocity of crosses Record, geological, imperfect Rengger on flies destroying cattle Resemblance to parents in mongrels and hybrids Reversion, law of inheritance Rhododendron, sterility of Richard, Prof.