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and fruit of various sizes and 

 qualities, many of which are ap- 

 plied to economical uses. They 

 are all of them natives of hot 



climates — the West Indies, Peru 

 Central America, &c. ; some of 

 them have been rendered hardy. 



The camellia, 10, so named in 

 honour of Camellus, who wrote 

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an elaborate work upon plants, 

 is a well-known flower of great 

 delicacy and beauty. This is 

 one of the typical plants of the 



natural order camellicce. consisting 

 of trees and shrubs no less useful 

 than ornamental. Though the 

 flowers are very beautiful, none 

 of them are fragrant. In China 

 and Japan the camellia grows to 

 a lofty tree, and when in flower 

 is an object of great admiration, 

 the red or white single or double 

 flowers, contrasting richly with 

 the glossy dark green foliage. 

 To this order belongs the tea- 

 plants * whose produce is so 

 acceptable in our daily economy. 

 We have already promised to 

 give some account of the cultiva- 

 tion of tea, and this appears to 

 be a suitable opportunity. 



In Professor Johnston's " Che- 

 mistry of Common Life," he 

 states that tea is consumed by no 

 less than five hundred millions of 

 people, or one-half of the whole 

 human race. The tea- plants 

 have much resemblance to the 



camellia. The thea bohea, 11, 

 produces the inferior black teas 

 which are made about Canton. 

 It bears a single flower, and a 

 simple leaf, 12, and grows to a 



* C bohea. and C. \ 



