THE 



FLORICULTURAL CABINET, 



FEBRUARY 1st, 1844. 



PART I. 



EMBELLISHMENTS. 



ARTICLE I. 



CAMELLIA JAPONICA LOWII. 



TkRNSTROMIACE.'E. MoNADliLPIIIA Pol.VANDnlA. 



This very strikingly handsome Camellia is an hybrid, raised by the 

 same very successful amateur grower who first sent outC. Rubescens, 

 C. Lepida, C. Lentonia, and some others of the very finest varieties 

 now in the English as well as the Continental collections. It flowered 

 in the select collection at the Clapton Nursery, in the spring of last 

 year, where it was seen by many of the most extensive growers in the 

 kingdom, and also by several of the best and most competent judges, 

 amongst whom may be named Mr. John Smith, of Dalston, and Mr. 

 G. Press, of Hornsey, both well known in the horticultural world as 

 successful cultivators of this noble and splendid family of plants; 

 these gentlemen pronounced it to be a first-rate flower in every 

 respect. A plant in bloom was shown at the London Horticultural 

 Society's meeting on the 18th of April, (see ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' 

 April 22, page 267). We must observe, however, that the. reporter 

 for the " Chronicle" made a mistake, in stating thai it was the same as 

 Messrs. Low and Co. had exhibited at a previous meeting, the one the 

 reporter alluded to being C. Guthriana, a small flower, and as round as 

 a Ranunculus bloom, in no respect resembling the variety now figured. 

 C. Lowii deserves to be grown in every collection, however select. 



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