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odours exquisite, and its taste delicious, its rihd is bitted 

 Perhaps none can understand the emblem, except those who 

 are so lucky or unlucky (as the case may be) as to be caught 

 in the gossamer web of the capricious little god. Whett the 

 young bride of Provence plights her faith arid her affections 

 before the sacred altar, her waist and her brow are en^ 

 wreathed with a chaplet of Orange flowers, which is called 

 the Chapeau de la Marine.' " 



Camellia jufionica, or Jafian Rosr. Much as we are in- 

 debted to Japan and China for elegant plants, still we are 

 more peculiarly so for the different species and varieties of 

 the Camellia, which, for the many beauties it concentrates, 

 may emphatically be called the " Queen of Flowers." The 

 different varieties of this plant form the most brilliant display 

 of the Green-house from December to May, and the splen- 

 dour of their flowers, and richness of their foliage, are sur- 

 passed by no others. The flowers of many of them equal in 

 size the largest garden rose, and combine a regularity of 

 form and richness of colouring, which present an admirable 

 contrast with their dark shining green leaves, and render 

 them the greatest ornaments of a room or the Green-house. 

 They need less protection than almost any other Green- 

 house plants, and four of them which were left in the open 

 ground during several winters, and which were protected 

 merely by a common frame, received no injury, although the 

 ground in the frame was frozen to the depth of five inches. 

 In England several of the varieties are now cultivated in un- 

 protected shrubberies, and it is there anticipated to naturalize 

 all the others, so as to form a permanent appendage to the 

 hardy shrubbery* No plants have ever yet been introduced 

 to the gardens of Europe or America which have received 

 so much admiration^ and been so much sought after, as the 

 varieties of the Camellia j and in common with other ama- 

 teurs, the utmost pains has been taken by the author to ob- 

 tain all the splendid new ones, and his collection now includes 

 above 50 varieties, with a prospect of additional extension. 

 The following are among the most beautiful and rare; the 

 others will be found enumerated at pages 91 and 92 of the 

 catalogue of the author's establishment. 



Camellia chandler^ or Chandler's Sufitrb Strified Wara" 

 tah. This produces flowers finely variegated* and others 

 nearly scarlet, of an Anemone form, on the sariie plant. It 

 is considered by the gentleman after whom it is named as 

 the most superb in his collection. The following is the de- 



