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been broiiglit from China. The flowers are npwiirtls of 3| in. in 

 tlianieter, and are very regular in form, the petals being arranged one 

 above another, and grailually diminisliing in size towards the centre, 

 exactly in the manner of the double white. The colour is of a fine 

 crimson red, and remarkably showy. When the flowers first begin 

 to open they are concave, but, as they expand, they become quite 

 flat. Tlie outer petals are nearly round. The centre petals are 

 rather pointed, and rise upright." (Doii's Mill.,\. p. j7G.) Intro- 

 duced in 1824. Price, in London, 7*-. Qd. each. 

 « C.j.20 Farksii Hort. Tiam;. Parks' s Japanese Ca?^^///^, Parks's striped- 

 Rose Camellia. — The flowers are of a bright rose colour, 4 in. in 

 diameter, irregularly striped or blotched with white, and they are 

 slightly odoriferous, like the flowers of the myrtle-leaved variety. 

 In this and other respects, it difters from C. j. variegata (No. 2.). 

 Introduced in 1824. Price, in London, lOs. 6rf. each. 



• C. j. 21 Sahin\kv\3. Hort. Trans. Sabine's Japayicsc Camellia, Sabine's white Camellia. — The 



flowers are of a pure white, 3 in. across, and they resemble in form those of the pompone. 

 Introduced in 18S!-t. 



B. Chinese and other Foreign Varietie.'s not in general Cultivation, but in all 

 2)robabiHli/ as hardy as the others. 



* C.j. 22 candidissima is noticed, in G. M., vol. xi. p. 7S. and 190., as one that assimilates to 



C. j. WcllbankfY! and as brought directly from Japan by Dr. Siebold, and called by 

 some C. Siebuldi. It is deemed by some a species. It is in Mr. Knight's collection, 

 il C.j. 23 Donkluer'i. — It is said that this is a very fine variety. It was raised on the Continent, 

 and is named after the head gardener at the botanic garden at Louvain. {Gard. Mag., 

 vol. xi. p. 85.) Mr. Knight possesses it in a living state, (p. 19l(.) 



* C.j. '2iJraiicofurfSnsis.—Vlov,'eis dark and light red, quite as large as those of C. reticulata. 



Raised from seeds of C. argentea, by M.J. Rinz, jun., nurseryman, Frankfort on the 



Maine ; who deems it the finest variety that has ever been seen in Germany. It flowered 



for the first time in 1834. Mr. Low, at Clapton, has a plant of it. {Gard. Mag., vol. xi. 



p. 2fij. 543.) 



il C. j. 25 liybrida Makoy. — M. .lacob Makoy sent us, previously to March, 1835, a dried 



specimen of this kind of camellia, which he informed us was a hybrid from C. japonica 



var. insignis and C. euryiiides. By the specimen, it assimilates in habit to eurycildes: 



the loaves are ovate, acuminate, serrate, and slightly pubigerous; the sprig and buds 



densely pubigerous ; the flower 1 in. across, perhaps more ; and the petals .5, orbicular, and 



centred by tiie cluster of stamens. The petal.*, in a dried state, were of a buff colour ; 



they might be, when living, white, tinted with red: nothing was stated of their colour 



when living. M. Makoy deemed the hybrid a fine variety. {Gard. Mag., vol. xi. p. 143.) 



Other navies of Foreign Varieties of C. japdnica. In Gard. Mag.,\o\. xi., varieties of camellia, 



by the following names, are mentioned as extant on the Continent, which, it seems, are not yet so 



in Britain : C. argintea, in p. 265. ; C. Gunnell\, in p. 543. ; C. Pronaykna, in p. 544. ; and C. 



violacea siipirba, in p. 544. 



The seinidouhle vhite was purchased in 1822, on the Continent, by Mr. Palmer, and is con. 

 sidered a distinct variety ; but it has not yet flowered in England. The rose-coloured waratah was 

 introduced, by the London Horticultural Society, from China, in 1824 ; but it has not yet flowered. 

 C ;. hexangiilaris, the hexangular-tiow cred Japanese Camellia, is a very singular variety, only 

 known by the Chinese drawings in the possession of the London Horticultural Sociery, it not 

 having been yet introduced. There are, doubtless, other varieties in China; but, from our in- 

 creased intercourse with that country, in consequence of the trade being thrown open, there can 

 be no doubt that they will all, sooner or later, find their way into Britain. 



C. Varieties of Camellia jajjonica originated in Britain. 

 The varieties of the common camellia originated in Britain are exceed- 

 ingly numerous. The first seeds ripened were those of C. j. anemoneflora, 

 about the year 1818, in the Count de Vandes's garden at Bayswater; and, 

 subsequently, a great number of varieties have been raised by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges ; Messrs. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Road Nursery ; Mr. Press, gar- 

 dener to Edward Gray, Esq., at Harringay, Hornsey; and various other 

 nurserymen and gardeners. In Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, 2d edit., pub- 

 lished in 18.30, sixty-five sorts of camellias are enumerated; of which 

 upwards of fifty are varieties of C. japonica. The following selection of 

 these is taken from the lUustrntions of Booth and Chandler, already men- 

 tioned ; from the Gardener's Magazine, and from Don^s Miller. 



a. Varieties raised in Britain that are figured and described in Chandler and 

 Boom's Illustrations of the Camellieae. 



• C.j. 2G coriillina Chandl. 111. The fOjaZ-coloured-flowered J. C. — Figured in Chandl. ///., t. 



10., and Chandler's Camellia: Britannicar, t. 5. A fine variety ; its habit, like that of the 

 waratah. Originated in 181<). Raised from seed by Messrs. Chandler of the Vauxhall 

 Nursery. Price, in London, Is. firf. ; and -nt Bollwyller, 10 francs. 



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