CHAP. XIX. VTERNSTROMIA CE. CAME’LLIA. 383 
and in the Goldworth arboretum there are 30 or 40 sorts, species and 
varieties, which have stood out as bushes for several years, also without any 
protection, and in an elevated, open, unsheltered situation. We are not aware 
of the Cameéllia japénica having been tried as a standard in the open air in 
France or Germany ; but at Naples, and more especially at Caserta, it has at- 
tained the height of 20 ft. in a very few years. (See Gard. Mag., vol. xi. 
p. 151.) The price of the single-flowered variety, in the London nurseries, is 
is. 6d. a plant; at Bollwyller, 3 franes; and at New York, ?. 
Varieties. A great many varieties have been raised in the neighbourhood of 
London, chiefly in the nursery of Messrs. Chandler and Son, and in the 
garden of the Messrs. Loddiges. Some of these may be considered as rather 
tender, but the greater part of them would answer against a north-west or 
north-east wall, if protected. The following is an enumeration of the prin- 
cipal varieties known in British gardens. 
A. Chinese Varieties in general Cultivation. 
& C. 7. 2 variegata Bot. Rep. The variegated-flowered Japanese Camellia. 
—Figured in Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 329.; Chandl. Z//., t.6.; and Bot. Rep., 
t.91. It has flowers of a fine dark red, irregularly blotched with 
white. This is one of the hardiest of the varieties, and has stood 
out in several places for eight or ten years as an evergreen bush ; 
flowering freely every spring, though sometimes having the flowers 
injured by frost. It has stood in the Vauxhall Nursery, without 
protection, for eight years. There are stools of it in the open ground 
in the Leyton Nursery, where it is propagated for sale in the same 
manner as the Latrus ndébilis, and other hardy evergreen shrubs. 
There are stools of it in the Vauxhall Nursery, in cold-pits, from 
which plants are raised, and sold as hardy evergreen shrubs in the 
same manner as at Leyton. It was imported from China, by Captain 
Connor, for the late John Slater, Esq., in 1792. Price, in London, 
3s. 6d. a plant; and at Bollwyller, 5 francs. 
# C. j. 3 incarnata Bot. Reg. The flesh-colour-flowered Japanese Ca- 
mellia, Lady Hume’s Camellia, or Blush Camellia.—Figured in Bot. 
Reg., t.112.; and Chandl. I//.,t.7. This is generally considered 
the next hardiest variety to C. j. variegata. The flowers are of a 
fine delicate, and yet glowing, blush colour, becoming richer as they 
expand ; the leaves are narrower and more acuminated than those of 
the preceding variety, and the tree has a looser and more slender 
habit of growth. Imported in 1806, for the late Lady Amelia Hume, 
of Wormeleybury, Herts. Price, in London, 3s. 6d. a plant ; and at 
Bollwyller, 4 francs. 
a C, 7. 4 alba plena Bot. Rep. The white-double-flowered Japanese Cu- 
melia.—Figured in Chandl. Jil, t. 11.; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t.269. The 
flowers are of a pure white, from 3 in. to 4in. in diameter. Plants 
of this variety, between 6 ft. and 8 ft. in height, have stood out as 
bushes in the Mile End Nursery, at Messrs. Loddiges’s, in the Vaux- 
hall Nursery, and at Purser’s Cross, for several years. “One of the 
most elegant varieties in cultivation; brought to England, in 1792, 
by the same gentleman who introduced the double-striped ; viz. John 
Slater of the India House, according to Messrs. Chandler and Booth ; 
but Thomas Slater, according to Mr. Main, who went out as collector 
for Gilbert Slater ([Gard. Mag.}, vol. ii. p. 423.) in 1791.” (Gard. 
Mag., vol. vi. p. 471.) Price, in London, 3s. 6d.; at Bollwyller, 
4 francs. Beautiful imitations of the flowers of this variety have 
been formed in wax. 
@ C. 7. 5 fimbriata Lodd. The fringed-petaled white-double-flowered Ja- 
panese Camellia.—Figured in Chandl. Ji. t.15.; and Lodd. Bot. 
Cab., t. 1103. In cultivation since 1816, and a very beautiful variety. 
“Mr. Colvill, of the King’s Road Nursery, has the merit of being 
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