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and in the Goldworth arboretum there are 30 or 40 sorts, species and 

 varieties, which have stood out as bushes for several years, also without any 

 protection, and in an elevated, open, unsheltered situation. We are not aware 

 of the Camellia japonica having been tried as a standard in the open air in 

 ! France or Germany ; but at Naples, and more especially at Case.rta, it has at- 

 ' tained the height of 20 ft. in a very few years. (See Gard. Meg., vol. xi. 

 p. 151.) The price of the single-flowered variety, in the London nurseries, is 

 Is. 6d. a plant; at Bollvvyller, .3 francs; and at New York, ?, 

 Varieties. A great many varieties have been raised in the neighbourhood of 

 London, chiefly in the nursery of Messrs. Chandler and Son, and in the 

 garden of the Messrs. Loddiges. Some of these may be considered as rather 

 tender, but the greater part of them would answer against a north-west or 

 north-east wall, if protected. The following is an enumeration of the prin- 

 cipal varieties known in British gardens. 



A. Chinese Varieties in general Cultivation. 



* C.j. 2 variegdta Bot. Rep. The variegated-^oweved Japanese Camellia. 



—Figured in Lodd.^o^. Cab., t. 329.; Chandl. ///., t. 6.; and Bot. Rep., 

 t. 9 L It has flowers of a fine dark red, irregularly blotched with 

 white. This is one of the hardiest of the varieties, and has stood 

 out in several places for eight or ten years as an evergreen bush ; 

 flowering freely every spring, though sometimes having the flowers 

 injured_ by frost. It has stood in the Vauxhall Nursery, without 

 protection, for eight years. There are stools of it in the open ground 

 in the Leyton Nursery, where it is propagated for sale in the same 

 manner as the iaurns nobllis, and other hai-dy evergreen shrubs. 

 There are stools of it in the Vauxhall Nursery, in cold-pits, from 

 which plants are raised, and sold as hardy evergreen shrubs in the 

 same manner as at Leyton. It was imported from China, by Captain 

 Connor, for the late John Slater, Esq', in 1792. Price, in London, 

 3*. 6c?. a plant ; and at Bollwyller, 5 francs. 



* C. j. 3 incarndta Bot. Reg. The /es/z-colour-flowered Jajoanese Ca- 



mellia, Lady Hume's Camellia, or Blush Camellia. — Figured in Bot. 

 Beg., t. \\2. and Chandl, ///., t. 7. This is generally considered 

 the next hardiest variety to C. j. variegata. The flowers are of a 

 fine delicate, and yet glowing, blush colour, becoming richer as they 

 expand ; the leaves are narrower and more acuminated than those of 

 the preceding variety, and the tree has a looser and more slender 

 habit of growth. Imported in 1806, for the late Lady Amelia Hume, 

 of Wormeleybury, Herts. Price, in London, 35. M. a plant ; and at 

 Bollwyller, 4 francs. 

 «t C.J. 4 alba pUna Bot, Rep. The white-double-SiOwered Japanese Ca- 

 mellia. — Figured in Chandl. ///., t. 11. ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 269. The 

 flowers are of a pure white, from 3 in, to 4 in. in diameter. Plants 

 of this vai-iety, between 6 ft. and 8 ft. in height, have stood out as 

 bushes in the Mile End Nursery, at Messrs. Loddiges's, in the Vaux- 

 hall Nursery, and at Purser's Cross, for several years. " One of the 

 most elegant varieties in cultivation ; brought to England, in 1792, 

 by the same gentleman who introduced the double-striped ; viz.. John 

 Slater of the India House, according to Messrs. Chandler and Booth; 

 but Thomas Slater, according to Mr. Main, who went out as collector 

 for Gilbert Slater {[Gard. Mag.'\, vol. ii. p. 423.) in 1791." {Gard. 

 Mag.,vo\.\\. p. 471.) Price, in London, 3s, Qd.; at Bollwyller, 

 4 francs. Beautiful imitations of the flowers of this variety have 

 been formed in wax. 



* C- J- 5 fimbridta Lodd. The fringed-^oXAQd white-double-flowered Ja- 



panese Crtme//k.— Figured in Chandl, ///., t. 15. ; and Lodd. BoU 

 Cab., t. 1103. In cultivation since 1816, and a very beautiful variety. 

 " Mr. Colvill, of the King's Road Nursery, has the merit of being 



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