356 THE FLORAL WORLD AND GARDEN GUIDE. 



SELECTIOIT OF NEW YARIETIES. 



Matteo Molfino, a finely imbricated flower, superbly coloured, 

 bright cerise and pure white. 



Bello Homano, flowers large and finely formed, flush flaked with 

 crimson. 



Comte de Toll, beautifully formed, colour pure salmon. This is 

 a charming novelty, and the habit of the plant is all that can be 

 desired. 



Lavinia Maggi Rosea, & magnificent flower, of a fine red colour. 

 The plant is a good grower, and the flowers last a long time iu 

 perfection. 



Madame Amlroise Yerschaffelt, very neat, white, sufl'iised witli 

 blush, and veined and spotted with rose, delicate and pleasing. 



Nonpareil, the form of this flower is perfect, the petals have great 

 substance, the colour is delicate flesh, striped and splashed with pink. 

 The plant is one of the best in habit, and flowers abundantly. 



Queen of Beauties, a grand variety, which is certain to maintain a 

 bigh position for many years to come, colour blush, form imbricated. 



A dozen or so more might be added, for amongst the new camel 

 lias of the past seven years, a considerable proportion possess sterling 

 merit; but we have named the crime de la crenie only, believing 

 that in papers of this kind selections of plants cannot be too carefully 

 prepared. S. H. 



NEW NOTES OX CAMELLIA CULTUEE. 



EY ME. JAMES BAEXES, 



Head Gardener to Lady Rolle, Bieton. 



HAVE almost as many Camellias within two minutes' 

 walk of my house as any Chinese mandarin, and I sup- 

 pose they must have a good many, and if they have not, 

 they ought to have. I have them in beds in the flower 

 garden as green as the darkest and richest ivy you ever 

 saw, in favoured moist places, away from smut, or any dangers or im- 

 purities. I have them in our shrubberies growing as healthfully as 

 the common laurel. Some of the sneering and fault-finding variety 

 of gardeners may think it futile to attempt camellia culture in this 

 way, saying that the blooms get cut ofi" by the spring frosts, 

 etc. ; but even if such were the ca?e regularly, why should anybody 

 object to my employing the camellia as a hardy evergreen ? Erost 

 does occasionally nip off the opening flowers in early spring, it is 

 true, but then our plants bear such quantities — such nests of buds 

 on every spray, that there are always plenty ready to yield to the 

 softening influences of the first m^ild and sunny days, and the re- 

 sult is that I may often cut hundreds of beautiful blooms in spring. 



I introduce the subject in this way just to remind many people in 

 the more southern and favoured parts of Ensfland and Ireland, that 

 they might with advantage try the camellia out of doors much 



