And how would 'Uncle Sam' and 'John Bull' comport themselves? Gladstone' we are given to understand would frown up a thunderstorm and sidle over to 'Temperance Rose' to denounce the whole affair. Among the political figures, 'Winston Churchill' would seem happily placed but 'W.E. As for 'Sir Walter Scott' and 'Homer' some historian might know more about their habits than I. 'Mark Twain', 'Victor Hugo', 'Charles Dickens', 'Voltaire'. Perfectly respectable names and the hybrids which bear them, we may add, always manage to stay upright even when heavily loaded! Could the following authors do likewise? One has doubts. All in fun, but if it suggests some useful ideas, so much the better.Īs a starter perhaps it will be helpful to get into the right spirit (or vintage.) 'Bourbon Supreme', 'Old Port', 'Red Rum', 'Burgundy', 'Claret', 'Madeira', 'Champagne', and for hot weather, 'July Julep'. Skipping the best known and most widely grown hybrids such as 'Elizabeth', 'Cynthia', 'Blue Peter', and 'Pink Pearl', let us seek out the un-commonplace names, which as we shall see, range from unusual to fascinating, to positively bizarre! Lifted from their alphabetically arranged context these can be grouped in some quite interesting combinations. The list is much longer and more varied than most would ever suspect.
Inspection of the International Rhododendron Register, including the annual updates since the original Register was published, reveals an astonishing array of names bestowed upon rhododendrons. JARS v36n3 - Phit Phonetics for Phavorite Hybrids
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