By Mr. William Beattie Booth. 533 



H. Turner, Esq. and the latter for the Kew collection, are 

 the whole enumerated in the last edition of the Hortus 

 Kewensis, published in 1812. At that time the Camellias 

 began to excite the attention of every cultivator, and new 

 varieties were eagerly sought after. The White Pceony- 

 flowered, or as it has sometimes been called, the White Wara- 

 tah, and atro-rubens, or Loddiges's Red, were the next that 

 came into notice. The former is believed to have been among 

 those imported for Kew in 1810; and the original plant of 

 the latter is stated by Messrs. Loddiges, in their Botanical 

 Cabinet, p. 170, to have been introduced by themselves in 

 1809. 



In 1816, the Fringed White made its appearance at the 

 Nursery of Messrs. Colvil, in the King's Road, and the 

 Various-flowered in the Royal Garden, Kew, and in the 

 garden of Charles H. Turner, Esq. at Rooksnest. Ano- 

 ther very fine variety was imported for this gentleman by 

 Captain Welbank, and also by Captain Rawes, for ThoMAS 

 C. Palmer, Esq- of Bromley. It flowered first in the gar- 

 den of Mr. Turner, and was named Welbank' s White, in 

 compliment to the gentleman by whom it was introduced. 



In 1820 the Blush Paeony-flowered was imported for the 

 Horticultural Society; involuta for Lady Farnborough, 

 and the variety known as " Kent's Hexangular" by Captain 

 Rawes. In 1821, the Society, by means of Captain Thomas 

 Le Blanc, imported a variety which has been named Le 

 Blanc's Red Camellia; and in 1824, a plant of Rawes's 

 Striped Waratah was added to the collection of Thomas 

 Carey Palmer, Esq. by his relation, Captain Rawes; se- 

 veral more varieties were brought home in the same year by 



