366 ON THE CAMELLIA AND ITS CULTURE. 



keeping the dog unduly shut up and some years must 

 have elapsed before the plant was reintroduced, for it is 

 not found in the seventh edition of Miller's " Gardeners' 

 Dictionary," published in 1759. Abercrombie, however, 

 includes it in his list of hothouse plants given in the 

 "Garden Vade-Mecum," published in 1789. Several 

 beautiful varieties were introduced from China towards 

 the close of the last and at the beginning of the present 

 century, among them the Double White, the Double 

 Striped, Lady Hume's Blush, Fimbriata, and Imbricata ; 

 Reticulata, Cup of Beauty, and Princess Frederick William 

 were of later introduction. Others have been raised by 

 English, Continental, and American horticulturists. The 

 nurseries of Messrs Chandler of Vauxhall and Messrs 

 Loddiges of Hackney (both now abolished) produced 

 early in this century many beautiful new varieties, and 

 the late Mr Press of Hornsey and Mr Fielder of Enfield 

 added to the store. 



Mr Chandler tells me that about the year 1819, a season 

 very favourable for seeding, he saved about half a peck of 

 seeds from the variety known as Warratah, the flowers of 

 which had been fertilised with the pollen of the Double 

 Striped and other esteemed sorts. The seeds were sown 

 as soon as ripe, and vegetated in a few weeks, producing 

 several hundred plants. When two years old, and from 6 

 to 9 inches high, these seedlings were inarched on the 

 Single Red, and in two or three years they flowered. 

 From this crop were raised Chandlerii, Eximia, Elegans, 

 Florida, Aitonii, Rosa-sinensis, Corallina, Althceflora, 

 Woodsii, Insignis, Concinna, and others. 



Mr Press appears to have been most successful with 

 the Anemone-flowered varieties, that is, those kinds which 

 have a cluster of small petals in the centre and a row of 

 large petals at the base of the flower. Of these, Eclipse, 

 Picturata, and Candidissima may be given as examples. 

 Mr Fielder's seedlings are more of the florist's type, 

 resembling the Old Double White in shape. Two of his 



