100 FloricuUural and Botanical JS'otices. 



ten in number, recurved; inner ones small, arranged in four 

 disiinci circles, forming a large globular flower, three and a 

 half inches in diameter, without stamens or pistil, a shade or 

 two lighter than the Greville's red, and one of the most desir- 

 able varieties for a conservatory, from its bold and globular 

 form. The parents were the old Middlemist fertilized by 

 Greville's red. 



Mr. James Caroll, the gardener, deserves much credit for 

 his perseverance in originaiing this fine variety, and for the 

 care and interest which he takes in this collection of plants: 

 having charge of the farm, his time is necessarily limited to 

 that of the green-house; his plants, nevertheless, from tlieir 

 cleanliness and thrift}- appearance, will bear comparing with 

 our best collections. — Yours, T. Dunlap^ Harhm, J\\ Y., 

 Feb. 1S41. 



Camellta japonica var. — The following description of a new 

 camellia, raised by 3Ir. Samuel Feast, of Baltimore, we re- 

 ceived from the hand of a kind correspondent: — 



You will no doubt be glad to hear of the success of hor- 

 ticulturists in this region; I therefore apprize you of the fact, 

 that Mr. Samuel Feast has now in bloom one of the best, if 

 not the very best, seedling camellias that has been produced 

 in this countrv. I might say the best that has been produced 

 here or elsetthere, I believe; but as I have not seen all the 

 seedlings produced in Europe, though I have seen a great 

 manv, I will onlv embrace American seedlings. The flower 

 of Mr. Feast's seedling is of the largest class, very double, 

 with very broad peials. At a {e\K- feet distance it appears 

 perfectly white, but on a close examination, an occasional very 

 delicate flake of deep rose is observed towards the base of 

 each petal; and numerous extremely fine specks or spots of 

 rose are sprinkled over them. The great breadth of the pet- 

 als appears to render the expansion of the flower somewhat 

 difficult and tedious; but even this would not be objectionable 

 to manv, as the expanded petals remain f>erfect much longer 

 than 1 ever observed in any other variety. The flower now 

 open has been expanding nearly two weeks; it has about ten 

 rows of peials fully expanded, and those yet to unfold will 

 afford fifteen or twenty rows more. This is the second flow- 

 er that has bloomed this season on the same plant. The first 

 remained perfect nearly three weeks, and would have contin- 

 ued much longer, but it was injured by water during an ex- 

 tremely wet season. The foliage of the plant is noble, and 



