222 Chandler and Booth's Camelliecc. 



Art. III. Ilhi&tifil'ions and Tiescriplions of ihe Plants ivhich compose 

 ihc Natural Older Camelliece, and of' the Varieties of Camellia 

 japonica cultivated in the Gardens of Great Britain. The Draw- 

 ings by Alfred Chandler ; the Descriptions by William Beattie 

 Booth, A.L.S. Folio, Vol. II. Part I. London. 



The conchurmfT part of vol. i. of this splendid work was 

 noticed in our \o\. MIL p. 21 1.; and, in introducing the first 

 number of vol. ii., we have only to observe that the plates and 

 the letterpress are of the same superior description as before. 

 The colouring of the plates is so exquisitely beautiful, that it is 

 superior to anytiiing of the kind we have previously seen. We 

 particularly admire the plate of CamelhV/ japonica Giles//, in the 

 present number. It is a picture which every cultivator of the 

 camellia might delight to frame, to decorate the walls of his 

 library. The diawings are all by Alfred Cliandler, and the 

 colouring is executed under his superintendence; the en- 

 graver is E. S. Weddell, the artist who was employed on Mr. 

 Lambert's splendid work, the genus Pinus. The varieties figured 

 in the present number are as follows : — 41. Cajucllin japonica 

 Colvillu SioL Br. Fl.-Gard. ; Arb. Brit., p. 388. " A very fine 

 variet}', although, in our opinion, it scarcely deserves the high 

 character given to it by Sweet." (p. 41.) — 42. C.j. Bealen Palmer 

 in Chand. Introduced by John Reeves, Esq., of Clapham, in 

 1831. The original phmt came from Japan to Macao, in China, 

 in 1828, and was exchanged for Chinese plants with Thomas 

 Beale, Esq., by whom it was increased, and in compliment to 

 whom it was named by Mr. Palmer. Mr. Beale has been up- 

 wards of forty years in China, and lias been indefatigable in 

 collecting rare and beautiful plants, and sending them to England. 

 The leaves of C. j. Beaie/z resemble those of llawes's variegated 

 waratah, Arh. Brit., p. 387. The flowers are show}', though 

 not very double ; and they are about 4 in. in diameter. They are 

 of a fine clear red, and composed of four or five rows of nearly 

 equal-sized petals. The outer ones, 1 in. or 1^ in. broad, being 

 cupped and curved at the edges, resemble so many small red- 

 coloured shells, and give a feature which is of itself sufficient to 

 characterise this variety. — 43. C.j. Gilem Chand. Raised in 

 1826, from seed of the waratah, by Mr. William Giles, gardener 

 to John Dodson, Esq., of Clapham, after whom it is named. 

 The plant is weaker and more pendulous than the parent; but 

 it grows freely, and is not so liable to lose its buds as some of 

 the other kinds. The leaves are large, ovate-oblong, and 

 pointed ; but not flat and thick, like those of the waratah. 

 '* The flowers, though liable to vary, arc, when well striped, 

 remarkably showy ; being of a fine dark red colour, with the 

 white very clear and distinct, and from 4 in. to 5 in. in diameter. 

 Sometimes, like the flowers of the double-striped, they come 



