QBARS - v11n2 Let's Keep the Facts Straight

Lets Keep the Facts Straight
By Warren Baldsiefen

PART II

Editors Note: The following list of rhododendrons are being propagated by the use of the Nearing method, and represent the second installment of the article in the January Bulletin by Warren Baldsiefen.

Catawba hybrids-a few species, and a few newer English and Dutch hybrids.

Nova Zembla

Parsons Grandiflorum

Atrosanguineum

Van Den Hoop

America

Maximum Roseum

Caractacus

Roseum Elegans (all forms)

F D Godman

Everestianum # 1

Charles Dickens

Everestianum #2

Kettledrum

Catawbiense Grandiflorum

Dr Dresslhuys

Purpureum Grandiflorum

Ignatius Sargent

Lee's Best Purple

Mrs. C. S. Sargent

Lee's Dark Purple

Old Port

Purpureum Elegans

Dr. Rutgers

Catawbiense Boursalt

General Grant

Luciferum

Edward S. Rand

Parsons Gloriosum

Charles Bagley

Minnie

Abraham Lincoln

Candidissimum

Prometheus

Album Elegans

Lady Clermont

Album Grandiflorum

Lady Clementine Milford

Delicatissimum

Lady Armstrong

Boule De Neige

Catawbiense Album

John Walter

Cunningham's White

hirsutum

Gomer Waterer

hippophaeoides

Cunthia

ferrugineum

Madame De Bruin

racemosum

Purple Splendor

Laetivirens

Michael Waterer

Moonstone

Mars

Unique

Lady Grey Egerton


Essex Scarlet

Nearing Hybrids

Goldsworth Yellow

Regina

H. H. Hunnewell

Ramapo

Tally Ho

Windbeam

Azor

Wyanokie

Naomi

Montchanin

Gills Crimson

Hokessin

Dr. Stocker

Deleware

Dido

Brandywine


Lenape

Gable Hybrids including a few valuable species

Caroline

Floribunda

C-11

Orbwill

Adenopodum

Three Star

Vernicosum Rock 18139 # 1

Jacksonii #6

Vernicosum Rock 18139 #2

Gable's Pink #2

Catalgla # I

Atrosanguineum x Orbwill

Gable's Pink # 1

Conewaga

Atrier # 10

Conewaga F2

Holly

Discolor Special

Pink Perfection

Madonna

Boule De Neige x fortunei

Jacksonii # 1

Brachycarpum x decorum

Auriculatum x discolor

Maximum x fortunei

Catfort x campylocarpum

Maxhaem Salmon

Catawbiense x discolor

Decatros Pink

Maxhaem #7

Caroline x fortunei

Ovatum # 1

Beaufort

Ovatum #2

Cathaem # 1

Albert Close

Cathaem #4

Catawbiense Album x Loderi (Catalode)

Disca

Degrier X America

Sir James

Gable's Pink #4

Camich

Litiense

Cardinal

yakushimanum

Bosutch

makinoi

Cadis

campanulatum

Corona Seedling

Coplon's White

Rock

Longesquamatum

Gable's Pink #3

Cathaem #7

Catalgal x discolor

smirnowii

Souldisclit x discolor

Ladifor

Smirnowii x fortunei

Haematocheilum

Maxhaem Yellow

wardii x discolor

Maximum x Discolor

caucasicum compactum stump

Atrosanguineum x Floccigerum

Carolid

Catalgla x Caroline

Cathaem # 10

Catalgla x Essex Scarlet

metternichii var. tsukushianum

Caroline x Disca

Gable's Pink #5

Atrier Hardy

Atrosanguineum x Orbwill

Atrier x Disca

Mucram

Cathaem x Reds

Mucronulatum Rose Gable's Aladdin

Jacksonii #5

Catawbiense Compactum x Disca

Mrs. Powell Glass

Essex Scarlet x fortunei

(Dorothea x Kettledrum) x ( williamsianum x griffithianum )

( souliei x discolor ) x ( discolor X Caroline)

( smirnowii x arboreum ) x ( decorum x griffithianum )

(wardii x discolor) x fortunei Caroline x discolor special


The remaining evergreen rhododendrons were propagated for John Wister of Swarthmore College.

Numbered Dexter cultivars: Numbers 8, 9, 16, 18, 22, 23, 42, 44, 94, 105, 108, 109, 121, 123 (Dexter's Favorite), 125, 152, 173, 187, 201, 213, 218, 221

Cuttings from New York Botanical Gardens: N. Y. B. Numbers 1, 2A, 3B, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 15, 4(205), 203, 13(201)

Cuttings from Mrs. F. Moseley: F. Moseley Numbers 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14

Cuttings from Henry duPont: duPont #2

Cuttings from Morris Arboretum: Morris numbers 1, 2, 3, 4

Cuttings from S. A. Everitt: Hardy Mauve, Apple Blossom, Deep Pink with Large Flower ,Deep Pink, P.K. Josephine Everitt, Soft Pink Fragrant, Tops Large Red, Sam Everitt numbers 1, 7, 10, 12, 42

Cuttings from Howard and J. S. Phipps: H. P. numbers 3, 8, H. Phipps Dwarf Pink J. S. P. #3

Cuttings from Mrs. Arthur Hoyt Scott: Scott numbers I, 2, 3, 4, 5; Carolinianum (Biltmore), Brown # 14, Discolor Hybrid (Consolini), F. H. # 11, Fowle #9


The following numbered groups are as yet unnamed in the Swarthmore collection. They were purchased by Mrs. C. O. Dexter in 1945

12499 group numbers I, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 16

12500 group numbers 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 14

12505 group numbers 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 15, 18

12506 group numbers 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10

12507 group numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20B

9015 group numbers 1, 2


Exbury, Knaphill and Slocock deciduous azaleas

Gibralter

Golden Dream

Basilisk

Cecile

Bright Forecast

Brazil

Kipps

Hotspur Red

Berryrose

Mrs. O. Slocock

Fawley

Hoopoe

Ginger

Sylphides

Mary Claire

Knaphill White

Scarlet Pimpernel

Golden Oriole

George Reynolds

Harvest Moon

Salmon Orange

Buzzard

Rennie

Royal Lodge

Bright Straw

Tunis

Strawberry Ice

Mrs. A. Waterer

Madelliene



Native Selected Species and Hybrids

roseum x japonicum

speciosum B 159

calendulaceum B 3305-1

japonicum x calendulaceum 9022-2

J. C. Vab Tol x viscosum

serrulatum Georgianum B 1718

canescens hybrid Be 2554

prunifolium B 557

atlanticum 1338

speciosum 158

bakeri B 854



Ghent Hybrids

Daviesii

Raphael De Smet

Narcissiflora

Pallas

Fanny

Unique

Coccinea Speciosa



Ilam Azaleas

F X #5

Z X F