Reprefentations of this flower are frequently met with in 
Chinefe paintings. 
With us, the Camellia is generally treated as a ftove plant, 
and propagated by layers ; it is fometimes placed in the 
greenhoufe ; but it appears to us to be one of the propereft 
plants imaginable for the confervatory. At fome future time 
it may, perhaps, not be uncommon to treat it as a Lauruftinus 
or Magnolia: the high price at which it has hitherto been fold, 
may have prevented its being hazarded in this way. 
The bloffoms are of a firm texture, but apt to fall off long 
before they have lofi their brilliancy ; it therefore is a pra&ice 
with fome to flick fuch deciduous bloffoms on fome frelh bud, 
where they continue to look well for a confiderable time. 
Petiver confidered our plant as a fpecies of Tea tree; 
future obfervations will probably confirm his conjecture. 
