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The Garden Magazine, February, 1922 



Mallie Edwards Hewitt, Photo. 



The Camellia collection of Mr. W. R. Coe at Planting 

 Fields, Oyster Bay, is unique in America. Reaching 

 the height of their blooming season in February and 

 March, appearing in fantastic combinations of red, 

 white, and pink and in pure colors, the Camellias won 

 favor in earlier days, but to-day are rarely seen. There 

 are 68 varieties in this collection of ioo plants, gath- 

 ered together in England by the late Robeson Sargent 

 for Mr. Coe, and representing the best extant varie- 

 ties of many hundreds grown at one time or another. 

 The mottled red and white individual bloom shown here 

 is the variety Kelvingtoni. (See also pages 296, 297) 



