Green-fingered dowager
YOU published an excellent picture of ‘The Dowager’ rhododendron (right; Town and). This was propagated by my father’s first cousin Muriel Rolls Loder (née Hoare) of Leonardslee, West Sussex. She was the widow of Capt Robert Egerton Loder of the Royal Sussex Regiment, killed in action in the first Battle of Gaza in 1917. He was the son of Sir Edmund and Lady Loder and was buried in the Deir El Belah war cemetery, about 12 miles south-west of Gaza.
