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description of all the varieties we know would occupy this 

 volume. However, we will give lucid details of nearly one 

 hundred of the finest we have seen in cultivation. But, in 

 regard to the shades and spots of colour, we must throw our- 

 selves on the charity of our readers ; for many sorts are very 

 capricious in that particular ; though styled self-coloured, they 

 may come spotted, and even those that are generally spotted 

 sometimes show themselves of one colour. 



Camellia euryoides, flowers small, single white, and a little 

 fragrant ; plant of a slender growth. 



(7. oleiferia is cultivated principally in China for the oil 

 which is expressed from its seeds, which is much used in the 

 domestic cookery of the country; flower single white. 



C. Sesanqua, Lady Banks's. The foliage of this species 

 is very small, and paler, and the green not so fine as any of 

 the others. It seeds freely, and is often used as the female 

 parent in producing new varieties; flowers small, white, and 

 single, with many anthers. There are a semi-double and 

 double variety of it of the same colour. 



C. sesanqua ro'sea, or malliflbra of some, double pink, 

 small flowers, but in very great profusion ; the plant is of a 

 free, upright growth. The flowers are of about four weeks' 

 duration ; it is very much esteemed. 



C. kissi. Small single white ; the only species that is a 

 Dative of Nepaul. 



C. reticulata was brought from China by Capt. Rawes in 

 1822. The foliage is very characteristic, being stiff and flat, 

 distinctly serrated, nerves deeply sunken ; flovrers bright-rose, 

 of a loose form, and above six inches in diameter, semi- 

 double. From present appearance, it will never be so plenty 

 as many of the others, being tardy of propagation; only a 

 few eyes on the extremity of each shoot make young wood, 

 and if these are cut off, the plant does not seem to push 

 afresh. Magnificent. 



C. japonica, small, single, red. It is supposed that this 

 is the type of all the garden-cultivated varieties of the Ca- 

 mellia, though some are inclined to think that it is a varie- 

 gated or striped species, not yet introduced, that has been the 

 origin of so many beautiful Chinese sorts. 



The following are supposed to be its varieties : 



C. alba-plena, common, double white, is admired by the 

 most casual observer, and is generally considered a verv 



