358 Horticultural Society and Garden. 



Edward Gray, Esq. F.H.S. Flowers of the Striped and White Camellia, 

 from plants which had stood the winter in the open air in the Goldworth 

 nursery at Woking, by Mr. Donald, F.H.S. It appears that the striped 

 Camellia, which is one of the handsomest, is also one of the hardiest sorts. 

 Mr. Donald sent us, several times in the course of last winter, blossoms of 

 four varieties which have endured the open air with him for the last three 

 winters, remaining in flower from November till April ; and he has no doubt 

 the Camellia will ultimately become one of our hardy evergreen shrubs, and 

 as common as the variegated holly or Portugal laurel. From what we have 

 seen at Wortley Hall and other places, we have little doubt this will be the 

 case ; and we would suggest that wherever there are spare plants of Camellia, 

 and indeed of house exotics of any kind, that they should be tried among 

 masses or groups of other shrubs, or under deciduous trees, where the soil 

 is very dry, either naturally or by art. A southern exposure is of much less 

 consequence than a dry soil, and a situation surrounded by bushes, or pro- 

 tected from perpendicular cold and north and east winds, by trees. Cold 

 drying winds, and the alternate action of the sun's rays, and hoar frost, are 

 the chief sources of injury to be guarded against. 



The seedling Camellia* of Mr. Press are described in the following letter 

 from Mr. Burnard : — " Dear Sir, — I mentioned to you sometime ago that 

 Mr. Press of Hornsey had raised a number of seedling Camellias from seeds 

 saved from a plant of the semi-double red, impregnated by the single 

 white. The five following are now in bloom : — 



" 1. Gray's Invincible Camfflvd. White ground, striped with pink, 

 upwards of 5 inches in diameter, very double, the finest of all Camellia*. 



" 2. Rosa mundi C. White ground, beautifully spotted and striped with 

 crimson, in the way of a good York and Lancaster rose ; a well formed 

 double flower, 1\ inches in diameter. 



" 3. Press's Single Red C. Larger than the single white, and very 

 brilliant. 



" 4. Single striped and dotted C. A clear white ground, with pink stripes, 

 and dotted all over with small dots ; a very large and beautiful flower. 



" 5. Press's Eclipse C. A clear white ground, with pink stripes, superior 

 in the beauty of its form to the double white, 2| inches in diameter. 



" I understand the best judges consider these flowers as the finest that 

 have hitherto been raised in this country. It is said the Fellows of the 

 Horticultural Society were quite ravished with them, and I have no doubt 

 they will be in greater request than any of the varieties now in the nur- 

 series. I hope justice will be done to the extraordinary merit and good 

 fortune of Mr. Press, who is really an excellent gardener, as his superb 

 Magnolia*, pines in fruit every month in the year, grapes and peaches now 

 nearly ripe, and, indeed, all his other articles, evidently show. 



" Yours truly, 



" Formosa Cottage, Holloway, April, 1817. "J. P. Burnard." 



Also from the Garden of the Society. — A plant in flower of Haemanthus 

 multiflorus, sent from Sierra Leone by Dr. Barry, and a new species, col- 

 lected at Delagoa Bay, by the late Mr. John Forbes. Red and White 

 Primula Sinensis. Rose Waratah Camellia, brought from China by Mr. 

 John Damper Parks. Forced asparagus, raised in open beds by side linings 

 of dung, as practised in Denmark ; an excellent plan, producing very strong 

 shoots, un contaminated with the rank flavour so generally communicated 

 to asparagus, sea kale, and rhubarb, when forced by covering with rank 

 horse-dung. 



April 5. — Read, an account of a method of obtaining strawberry plants 

 for forcing, by Mr. Alexander Diack, of Mile End, near Aberdeen ; and, 



