of the most striking which has yet been seen, and possibly may have 
been produced by the pollen of one of the white-flowered varieties 
fertilizing the seed of a red-flowered one. A singular Dahlia has 
lately been produced, most likely by similar means, in which the petals 
are blotched after the same fashion as those of this Camellia. R.D 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GROWN; CuLTURE. This interesting 
variety was introduced by seeds brought from Japan by Siebold, and 
raised in the gardens of Belgium, whence it was imported into this 
country, first, we believe, by Mr. Knight of Chelsea, about 1834. 
The specimen from which our drawing was made grew in the magnifi- - 
cent collection of Mr. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Nursery, to whom 
we are indebted for the opportunity of figuring it. 
It requires the ordinary treatment of its kindred, which is commonly 
that of the conservatory. In the southern part of the island, it may 
be planted ont in bs open border against a north-west wall, or even as 
a standard. n young it will require matting for a few winters, 
but so soon as ave roots have taken a firm hold, it needs no protection, 
save just before going into flower. Most Camellias will be found to 
prosper more in the open ground or in the border of a conservatory 
than in pots, in which the roots are extremely apt to get matted. 
. Excessive heat in winter is very injurious to them. The first Camel- 
lias imported into this coun by Lord Petre, about 1739, were 
destroyed by being treated as stove plants, and fresh plants were 
again procured in 1742. We are too apt to fancy that every plant 
which comes from China or Japan, and still more from Brazil, must 
be kept in a high temperature, forgetting that a large portion of China 
is covered with snow for a considerable portion of the year, the rivers 
frozen for months, and that the mean annual temperature of Peking 
is 9° lower than that of Naples, chiefly owing to the extreme and 
prolonged cold of the dry or winter season. The chief obstacle 
‘to having as handsome and perfect plants in our shrubberies as are 
met with in China, arises from the deficiency of heat and light in our 
summers to harden the wood of the new shoots, without which they 
never flower freely. Mr. Loudon gives a list of several varieties of the 
Camellia japonica, which have been planted out against a north-west 
wall in Chandler’s Vauxhall Nursery, in the order of their hardiness, 
accompanied with a plan for the formation of a Camellia garden. 
(See Loudon’s Arboretum Britannicum, p. 381-9 and 392. 
ATION OF THE 
CaMELLIA, i in compliment to Goons Joseph Camellus, or Kamelli, a Moravian 
Jesuit, and traveller in Asia, author of a History of the Plants of the Island 
of Luzon. Japonica, from —_* Doncxexni, after the head gardener of 
the Botanic Garden of Louvai 
rs NONYME. 
CaMELLIA Japonica, Variety Doncxetzni, Lindley: in Botanical Register, 
t. 1854, 
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