314 Floricultural and Botanical Notices. 



price of £5 5s. ; but no description is given of the flowers. 

 If new and distinct in color, it will be a great acquisition. 



Mr. Fortune's Wanderings in China. — Mr. Fortune has 

 recently published an account of his Tour in China, in search 

 of new plants, «fcc. It is said to be a most interesting work ; 

 not having yet seen it, we extract the following notice of it 

 from the Gardeners^ Chronicle : — 



At last the mystery of the Yellow Camellia is solved, 

 and we may finally make up our minds that De CandoUe's 

 theory of colors is valueless. It was an ingenious idea to 

 divide all plants between one or the other of two series ; the 

 xanthic, or yellow species, never passing into blues ; and the 

 cyanic, or blue species, never passing into yellow. But the 

 exceptions prove too many for the rule ; and we must not be 

 startled at a blue Dahlia, although the Dahlia is xanthic, 

 since we have a yellow Camellia, although the Camellia is 

 cyanic. Mr. Fortune, in his very instructive work on the 

 Tea Countries of China, just published, saw this remarkable 

 variety, of which he gives the following account : — 



"Those who have read my ' Wanderings in China ' may 

 remember a story I told of my endeavors to find a yellow 

 Camellia, — how I offered five dollars for one, — how a China- 

 man soon found two instead of one, — and how he got the 

 money and I got taken in. 



" In one of these nurseries, however, I found a yellow 

 Camellia, and it was in bloom when I bought it. It is cer- 

 tainly a most curious plant, although not very handsome. 

 The flowers belong to the Anemone or Warratah class ; the 

 outer petals are of a French white, and the inner ones are of 

 a Primrose yellow. It appears to be a very distinct species 

 in foliage, and may probably turn out more hardy than any 

 of its race." 



To all lovers of horticulture, the work from which this is 

 an extract, is indispensable, for it abounds in interesting details 

 respecting, not merely the novelties met with by the enter- 

 prising traveller, but many of the now common favorites in 

 our gardens. The passages which relate to some of them 

 cannot be brought too soon under the notice of our readers. 



