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PART III. 



been brought from China. The flowers are upwards of 3|in. in 

 diameter, and are very regular in form, the petals being arranged one 

 above another, and gradually diminishing in size towards the centre, 

 exactly in the manner of the double white. The colour is of a fine 

 crimson red, and remarkably showy. When the flowers first begin 

 to open they are concave, but, as they expand, they become quite 

 flat. The outer petals are nearly round. The centre petals are 

 rather pointed, and rise upright." (Bon's Mill,, i. p. 576.) Intro- 

 duced in 1824. Price, in London, 7*. 6d. each. 



<i C.J. 20 ParA'iii Hori, Trmis. Parhs' s Japanese (7a??zeffi!fl!, Parks's Striped- 

 Rose Camellia. — The flowers are of a bright rose colour, 4 in. in 

 diameter, irregularly striped or blotched with white, and they are 

 slightly odoriferous, like the flow-ers of the myrtle-leaved variety. 

 In this and other respects, it diflTers from C. y variegata (No. 2.). 

 Introduced in 1824. Price, in London, !()*•. M. each. 



i* C. j. 21 Sahimkn?i Hori. Trans. Sabine's Japanese Camellia, Sabine's white Camellia.— The 

 flowers are of a pure white, 3 iu. across, and they resemble in form those of the porapoiie. 

 Introduced in 18^4. 



B. Chinese and other Foreign Varieties not in general Cultivation, but in all 



probabiliti/ as hardy as the others. 



* C.j. 22 candidissima is noticed, in G. M., vol. xi. p. 78. and 190., as one that assimilates to 



C. j. WellbanfaY) and as brought directly from Japan by Dr. Siebold, and called by 

 some C. Sieb6UU It is deemed by some a species. It is in Mr. Knight's collection. 

 iSi C. j. 23 BonMueri. — It is said that this is a very fine variety. It was raised on the Continent, 

 and is named after the head gardener at the botanic garden at Louvain. {Gard. Mag., 

 vol. xi. p. 85.) Mr. Knight possesses it in a living state, (p. 190.) 

 C.j. 2i/rancofurtens/s. — Flowers dark and light red, quite as large as those of C. reticuIJlta. 

 Raised from seeds of C. argentea, by M. J, Rinz, jun., nurseryman, Frankfort on the 

 Maine ; who deems it the finest variety that has ever been seen in Germany. It flowered 

 for the first time in 1834 Mr. Low, at Clapton, has a plant of it. (Gard. Mas., vol. xi. 

 p. 265. 543.) > f . 1 



* C. J. 25 hybrula Makoy. — M. Jacob Makoy sent us, previously to March, 1835, a dried 



specimen of this kind of camellia, which he informed us was a hybrid from C. japonica 

 var. insignis and C. euryoides. By the specimen, it-assimilates in habit toeuryoides: 

 the leaves are ovate, acuminate, serrate, and slightly pubigerous; the sprig and buds 

 densely pubigerous ; the flower 1 in. across, perhaps more ; and the petals 5, orbicular, and 

 centred by the cluster of stamens. The petals, in a dried state, were of a buff colour ; 

 they might be, when living, white, tinted with red : nothing was stated of their colour 

 when living. M. Makoy deemed the hybrid a fine variety. {Gard. Mag., vol. xi. p. 143.) 

 Other names of Foreign Varieties of C. Japdnica. In Gard. Mag., vol. xi., varieties of camellia, 

 by the following names, are mentioned as extant on the Continent,' which, it seems, are not yet so 

 in Britain : C. argentea, in p. 265. ; C. Gunnetli, in p. 543. ; C. Pronaykm, in p. 544. ; and C. 

 violdcea superba, in p. 544. 



Tlie semidouble white was purchased in 1822, on the Continent, by Mr. Palmer, and is con. 

 sidered a distinct variety ; but it has not yet flowered in England. The' rose-coloured waratah was 

 introduced, by the London Horticultural Society, from China, in 1824 ; but it has not yet flowered. 



C. j. hemngtilaris, the hexangular-floviered Japanese Camellia, is a very singular variety, only 

 known by the Chinese drawings in the possession of the London Horticultural Sociery, it not 

 having been yet introduced. There are, doubtless, other varieties in China; but, from our in- 

 creased intercourse with that country, in consequence of the trade being thrown open, there can 

 be no doubt tliat they will all, sooner or later, find their way into Britain. 



C. Varieties of Camellia, japoynca originated in Bi'itain. 

 The varieties of the common camellia originated in Britain are exceed- 

 ingly numerous. The first seeds ripened were those of C. j. anemoneflora, 

 about the year 1818, in the Count de Vandes's garden at Bayswater; and, 

 subsequently, a great number of varieties have been raised by Messrs. Lod- 

 diges ; Messrs. Chandler, of the Vauxhall Eoad Nursery ; Mr. Press, gar- 

 dener to Edward Gray, Esq., at Harringay, Hornsey ; and various other 

 nurserymen and gardeners. In Sweet's Hortus Britannicus, 2d edit., pub- 

 lished in 1830, sixty-five sorts of cameUias are enumerated; of which 

 upwards of fifty are varieties of C. japonica. The following selection of 

 these is taken from the Illustrations of Booth and Chandler, already men- 

 tioned ; from the Gardener's Magazine, and from Don's Miller. 



a. Varieties raised in Biitain that are figured and described in Chandler and 

 Booth's Illustrations of the Camelliese. 



^ C.j, 26 cordllina Chandl. 111. The co/a^-coloured-flowered J. C. — Figured in Chandl. Bl., t. 

 ■ 10., ai.d Chandler's Camellice Britannicts, t. 5. A fine variety ; it.s habit, like that of the 

 waratah. Originated in 1819. Raised from seed by Messrs. Chandler of the Vauxhall 

 Nursery, Price, in London, Is. Qd. ; and at BoUwyller, 10 francs. 



