THE 



FLORICULT URAL CABINET, 



MARCH 1st, 1843. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA ALBERTII— (Prime Albert' s Japan Camelih). 



T/E.iNSTKCKMIACE.E. MoNADELPHIA PoLYANDRIA. 



This very beautiful variety has recently been introduced into this 

 country by Messrs. Chandler and Sons, of the Vauxhall Nursery, 

 London, from China ; it is now in bloom in their splendid collection, 

 and is considered one of the most superb in the country. The flowers 

 are very double, of a globular figure. The petals are finely rounded, 

 uniformly disposed, and well filled up to the centre. The kinds of 

 flowers which have a red ground, striped or blotched with white, are 

 very liable to vary by becoming entirely of one colour, being destitute 

 of variegation ;*>but the kinds with a white ground, however striped or 

 spotted, almost uniformly retain their peculiarity. The one here 

 figured is of this class. 



It is some years since a new variety was introduced into this 

 country from its native region, till the present variety was received 

 from China ; recent circumstances connected with that country will 

 no doubt admit of other fine kinds being discovered and sent to 

 England, as well as numerous other plants. The Camellia was first 

 known in Europe from the accounts given by early travellers to China 

 and Japan, who relate that they had seen in these countries rose-trees 

 of the size of large oaks, having dark green shining leaves. Such 

 accounts were considered fabulous till the Asiatic traveller, the Jesuit 



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