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names, which one-half of people of taste and fashion, 

 and nine-tenths of mankind in general, care notliing 

 about. 



We shall now enumerate such species of the above 

 and a few other genera as we would recommend ; 

 and we shall in a future chapter enumerate all the 

 genera of green-house plants known, and state some- 

 thing of their characters as to beauty and cultivation. 

 But we wwld previously premise two tilings : first, 

 that we do not profess to have included all the hand- 

 some species of green-house plants in our list of 

 stock; and secondly, that we would recommend to 

 any person wishing to stock a green-house, not to 

 carry a list to a nurseryman, but to describe gene- 

 rally the sort of collection wanted, and leave to him 

 to supply such species as will produce it ; for some 

 of the species in books are not known to practical 

 men ; rare or dear plants have their names changed, 

 or have been lost ; and others are supplanted by su- 

 perior species or varieties more recently introduced 

 or originated. The true mode, therefore, not to meet 

 with disappointment, is to employ a respectable 

 nurseryman, who vdll not only look to giving present 

 satisfaction, but to ensuring future favours. Of such 

 nurserymen there are many round London. 



Subsect. 1. Came^llias. 



The Came^llia is the genus we shall commence 

 with, as flowering the earliest. The C. or Thea hoJiea 



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