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amateur and horticulturist?" The elegance of its form, 

 the beautiful verdure of its foliage, and the pure and bril- 

 liant colors of the large and elegant flowers, sufficiently 

 justify the admiration of all. In fact, we may say, there is 

 not a green-house in which this lovely plant has not found 

 a place, where it stands in the first rank of floral population. 

 To give a full 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 color, we must 

 throw ourselves on the charity of our readers; for many 

 sorts are very capricious in that particular : though styled 

 self-colored, they may come spotted, and even those that arc 

 generally spotted sometimes show themselves of one color. 

 CamilUa eiiri/oides, flowers small, single white, and a 

 little fragrant; plant of a slender growth. 



Q. olciferia 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. Sesanqiia, 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 color. 



C. sesanqua rdseaj or maUijibra 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 

 native of Nepaul. 



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

 1822. The foliage is very characteristic, being stifi" and flat, 

 distinctly serrated, nerves deeply sunken; flowers bright 

 rose, of a loose form, and above six inches in diameter, 

 semi-double. From present appearance, it will never be so 

 j)lenty as many of the others, being tardy of propagation ; 

 only a few eyes on the extremity of each shoot make young 

 v.'Ood, and if these are cut ofi", the plant does not seem to 

 push afresh. Magnificent. 



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

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



