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clusters, from ten to fifteen in a cluster, small, white, fragrant 

 like those of the hawthorn. The figure was taken in spring 

 1834, from a plant in the Chelsea Botanic Garden, where it has 

 stood trained to a wall for several years, without protection, 

 growing vigorously, flowering and perfecting its seeds freely. 

 {Brit. Flcw.-Garden , May.) A flowering specimen of this species 

 was exhibited at a meeting of the London Horticultural Society 

 early in the spring of 1835 ; it had been sent from the garden of 

 WilHam Wells, Esq., Redleaf, Kent, where it had stood out for 

 some time previous — more than a year, at least. 



XXXII. Ternstrdmxkcess. Camellia, japonica, Tliomsor^s New 

 Varieties of. Three varieties of Camellm japonica, raised from 

 seeds in the nursery of Mr. Thomson, Mile End, have flowered 

 this spring, for the first time, and have displayed properties that 

 are likely to place them high in the estimation of lovers of va- 

 rieties of the camellia. The history of their origin is this. 

 Seeds produced in 1827 by the variety termed exp^nsa were 

 sown in 1828. From these seeds seven or eight plants arose 

 which have all flowered, have all proved different varieties, 

 and all possessed of merit sufficient to entitle them to preserv- 

 ation ; but the three adverted to above have been selected from 

 the rest, as possessed of surpassing characters. Two of these 

 three we saw in flow^er ; and a painting of a flowering specimen 

 of the third, on April 28., when we noted down the following 

 chaiacteristics of them. The names prefixed to them were 

 determined on at the same time : — 



Susanna: after Miss Susanna Thomson, a daughter of the 

 late Mr .Thomson. The flower of this variety assimilates to that 

 of the variety Sweet/awa ; and some have thought that it equals or 

 surpasses it in the merit of properties. The petals have a white 

 ground with pink stripes, in the manner of those of a flower of 

 a carnation, but fewer and fainter : the centre of the flower is 

 pretty well filled with petals. The flowers are produced in 

 plenty. 



Martha : after Martha Thomson, now Mrs. Poole. Its flower 

 assimilates to that of Colvilh'. The mode of its formation is 

 somewhat that of the warratah. The petals have a blush ground 

 and pink stripes : the centre of the flower filled with petals. 

 The flowers are produced in plenty. The foliage is fine. 



Wadiehna : after Mr. Wadie, now, and for many years past, 

 propagator in this nursery. Petals of a dead white colour; the 

 flower large, in mode of formation distinct fi'om either the old 

 white double (alba plena) or the white double fringed (fimbriata) : 

 the petals are larger, and less compactly disposed ; the centre is, 

 notwithstanding, filled. The flowers last long ; one had stood 

 twenty-one days before it had fallen. The leaves are large, and 



