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every way fine: I am not sufficienlly versed in these matters, 

 to be more particular. Mr. Feast thinks one of the varieties 

 from which this seedhng was produced, was the Wellbankiana, 

 but he has no means of even guessing at the other. Mr. Feast 

 has a very large number of seedling camellias, many of them 

 ready to bloom. His seedling roses are very numerous, and 

 valuable additions to our collections. His seedling azaleas 

 are also very numerous and fine; some of them very distinct 

 varieties. Mr. Feast is so silent himself, on this subject, that 

 I have determined he shall have some of the advantage as 

 well as honor of his own labors; nolens volens. — Yours, An 

 Amateur, Baltimore, Feb., 1841. 



[We are most happy to hear of the determination of our 

 correspondent to bring Mr. Feast's productions before the 

 public: he has raised too many fine things, to have them re- 

 main unknown, as they are, in a great degree, to a portion of 

 the amateur cultivators throughout the country. The only 

 fault we have to find with some of our Baltimore friends, is 

 their great modesty, which prevents them from claiming 

 the merit which tiuly belongs to them, for the production of 

 some of the finest plants that have ever been raised in this 

 country. — Ed-I 



We have also received from Mrs. Arnold, of New Bed- 

 ford, a flower from a plant obtained from seed by herself, 

 which has blossomed for the first time the present season. 

 The flower somewhat resembles the old Middlemist, both in 

 color and shape, but is fuller of petals in the centre, and forms 

 a bolder flower: the foliage is large, bright green, smooth, and 

 glossy. The specimen had somewhat faded when it reached 

 us, but, so far as we could judge, we should deem it a very 

 pretty variety. We are not informed what were the parents 

 of this variety. 



Camell'm japonica var. amcricdna. — Tt will be recollected, 

 that Mr. Dunlap described four of his new seedling camellias 

 in our last volume, (VI., p. 23.) Since that period, Mr. 

 Dunlap states they have flowered again. C. var. americana 

 fully answers the expectations which were first formed of it. 

 It is a fine and distinct variety. There is, however, an error 

 in the description above referred to: the ground color is 

 blush, and not white, as there described. — T. Dunlap, Har- 

 lem, .V. F. 



Camellia japonica var. Wildcri. — This is the name INIr. 

 Wilder has a])plied to his new seedling camellia. If he was 



