MONOGRAPHY OF THE GENUS CAMELLIA. 43 



CHAPTER THIRD. 



METHOD OF CLASSIFICATION. 



Before describing the species or varieties, it is proper that an explana- 

 tion should be given of the method of classification, to which we have 

 alluded. 



This method consists of two series of ascending chromatic gamuts, of the 

 tones, and natural shades of the flowers, of the principal varieties of the 

 Camellia, all of which, as we have stated, having been derived from the 

 Camellia Japonica, properly so called. 



The first gamut commences with the Pure White, which passes to Rose, 

 then to Cherry, more or less deep, and goes on to Amaranth, or Provence 

 Rose, and ends with Pur fie. 



The second gamut commences with Yellowish Carnation, (dingy white,) 

 which passes to Flesh, then to clear or deep Orange, and ends in Pur-ple. 



The flowers of these two gamuts, are, as we have elsewhere stated, either 

 unicolored or bicolored. The unicolored are those which do not admit of any 

 modification in the unit of their color, like those indicated in the first gamut, 

 of the colored synoptical table. 



The bicolors, on the contrary, allow of several modifications, and pre- 

 sent five different divisions. 



The first gamut includes three, which are: 



1st. Flowers with a white ground, striped or spotted with rose. 



2d. Flowers with a rose ground, striped or spotted with cherry. 



3d. Flowers with a cherry ground, striped or spotted with white. 



The second gamut includes two, which are: 



1st. Flowers with a dingy white ground, jiesh color, striped with white. 



2d. Flowers with an orange red ground, more or less deep, striped, or 

 spotted with white. 



In the first gamut, — and here we borrow the language of the painter, — 

 the white is not overpowered by any color. 



The Rose is either overpowered by the Clear Rose-Lake and the 

 Nafles Yellow, as in No. 1, in the colored table; or by the Clear Rose-Lake, 

 Nafles Yellow, and Vermilion, as in Nos. 2, and 3, in the same table; or by 



