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covered with scarlet flowers of curious construction, 

 which come out of the old wood. All the species are 

 of easy culture, and very like dwarf pines. C. quadrif- 

 fida has the largest flowers ; C. clavata the most abund- 

 ant. They are all evergreens, and flower from April to 

 November. 



Camellias. There are about nine species, celebrated 

 over the known world as furnishing the domestic drug 

 calledtea, in universal use, besides many flowering 

 trees and shrubs as universally admired. Oil may be 

 expressed from the seeds of all the species, and used 

 as that of hemp and poppy in cookery. C. viridis and 

 C. bohea are said to be the species which supply the 

 tea. Some have asserted that there is only one shrub 

 used, but by examination it may be easily perceived 

 that there are leaves of various shape and texture, some 

 of them similar to C. sasanqua. Dr. Abel gives an ex- 

 plicit detail of the growing and manufacturing process 

 of tea, from which, in compliment to our fair patrons, 

 we give a few extracts : 



" The tea districts of China extend from the twenty- 

 seventh to the thirty-first degree of north latitude. It 

 seems to succeed best on the sides of mountains. The 

 soils from which I collected the best specimens consist- 

 ed chiefly of sand-stone, schistus, or granite. The 

 plants are raised from seeds sown where they are to 

 remain. Three or more are dropped into a hole four 

 or five inches deep; these come up without further 

 trouble, and require little culture, except that of remov- 

 ing weeds, till the plants are three years old. The 



