rhododendra

Alpine roses ( 'rhododendra'), one of which attains a height of 20 feet, and many other northern genera.

COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

These gardens had been planned under the third Lord Redcar, fifty years ago and more; they abounded in rhododendra and azaleas, and were in places so well sheltered and sunny that great magnolias flourished and flowered.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Those moisture-loving shrubs, the brilliant rhododendra collected by English nurserymen from our own

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various

Here, perhaps, in this strange forgotten wilderness of rhododendra.

The Research Magnificent 1906

The April sunset found our young man talking to himself for greater emphasis, and wandering along a turfy cart-track through a wilderness mysteriously planted with great bushes of rhododendra on the Downs above

The Research Magnificent 1906

I follow their little butterfly antics until they vanish beyond a thicket of flowering rhododendra, and then my eyes go back to the great facade of the University buildings.

A Modern Utopia 1906

These gardens had been planned under the third Lord Redcar, fifty years ago and more; they abounded in rhododendra and azaleas, and were in places so well sheltered and sunny that great magnolias flourished and flowered.

In the Days of the Comet 1906

I went along the well-kept paths among the rhododendra and through the private gate into the woods where the bluebells and common orchid were in profusion.

Tono Bungay 1906

The ranunculuses, rhododendra, and polyanthuses, which ornamented that mausoleum, had somehow been suffered to run greatly to seed during the last few months, and it was with no slight self-accusation that she acknowledged this fact on visiting "the garden of the grave," as she called it; and she scolded the beadle soundly for neglecting his duty towards it.

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

Polyanthuses, rhododendra, ranunculuses, and other flowers, with the largest names and of the most delightful odors, were planted within the little iron railing that enclosed the last resting-place of the

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885