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To: Ilaine who wrote (30369)	6/29/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I'm working on the house, most definitely. Rhododendron "Aladdin", one of my favorites, and my largest, is in bloom. It's the last one, I think. Not bad chron and chrome dispersion for a process begun in February. Quite an aesthetic chain. Aladdin, is, in my book, incredibly beautiful. The flower trusses are really large ~ bigger than a salad bowl. Regal, crisp shape ~ I think they call "lilliform". The bracts are cherry red, and the color within the flower ranges from clearest soft pink-watermelon to light carmine. (Really? Well; sort of.) Also, it smells like watermelon; a scent I've found in no other rhody. The plant is twelve feet tall and fourteen wide, I'm guessing. A tree; an exotic tree. This variety is not common, and I don't know why, as it is one of the most beautiful plants on Earth. I forget its parentage, but it might be Rhododendron griersonianum x Rhododendron decorum. God, they're beautiful. My mother water-colored this one. It's the model of all elegant and graceful things. And harmonically colored. Against the long, chipped-flint spear leaves, the pink and cherry radiate. Rhodies carry the distinct family of their individual species form lines throughout their bloom and palette-collars of leaves. Every shape detail is recognizable as composed by the same instruments. Hee hee. I guess I am biased. I was going to say, I guess I need a life, but I've got one. I sometimes, well, often, carry one of the blooms around with me in a bottle, so I can always have it near me when it's blooming. Even in the car. Or to meetings. Or the bar. Yep; that's me! Hoo, huh?