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PART HI, 



well, are very regularly formed, and of a fine rose colour ; they exceed 3 in. in diameter, 

 and are little inferior in appearance to those of C. j. exlmia, or of C. j. imbricata ; tlie petals 

 being nearly as numerous, and arranged with equal symmetry. Raised from seeds of 

 the waratah, by Mr. Chandler, in 1819. It possesses much beauty; but its flowers are 

 less brilliant than those of some others : it is not so well known as it should be, {III., t- 

 34.) Price, in London, 10s. 6f/. 



* C. j. 42 splmdem Chandl. 111., synon. C. j. eoccinea Hort. Brit, p 293. Allnutt's splendid 



J. C. — Figured in Chandl. JIL, t. 35. A much admired and most desirable variety. The 

 flowers are of a brilliant red, 3 in. broad, very showy, and produced abundantly on both 

 young plants and old ones. The jietals are aU deeply veined, and, though less numerous 

 than in some varieties, are so arranged in the centre as to form flowers to all appear- 

 ance perfectly double. The petals, also, are so remarkable for their roiuidness as to give 

 the flowers a peculiar character ; by which the variety may be readily distinguished- 

 The plant, in habit, is similar to the single red (C. japonioa i.), but is stronger and 

 more bushy ; the branches are upright and twiggv. Price, in London, 5s. 

 C.J. 4.3 Hosa sinensis Lodd. Bot. Cab. The Chinese Rose (? Hibiscus^.HowexeA J. C — 

 Figured in Lodd. Bot. Cah., t. 1455., and Chandl. ///., t. 36. This is' a bold-flowering, 

 freely blooming, flrst-rate variety Its pale purplish red flowers are tolerably full of pe- 

 tals, extremely handsome, 4 in, across, and bearing considerable resemblance to those of 

 C. j. elegans. It was raised by Mr. Chandler about 1819. Price, in London, 7*. M ; and 

 at Bollwyller, 15 francs. 



* C. j. 44 R6ss\\ Chandl. III., t. 37. Ross's J. C. — Figured in Chandl. III., t. 37., and 



described in that work. This is a desirable variety : it is briefly described in Oard. 

 Mag., vol. i. p. 'ill., under the name of Ross's Cam^lh'n gloridsa. The flov/era are 

 often 4 in. in diameter; in form they resemble those of C. j. felegans; but in colour 

 they are of a much darker and deeper red. 

 *t C.J. 45 Alton'i Chandl. Cam. Brit. Alton's J. C. Alton's large single red C— Figured in 

 Chandl III, t. 38., and in Chandl. Cam. Brit., t. 3. It is a very striking variety, and a 

 most valuable one to the cultivator of camellias, on account of its producing seeds more 

 freely than any other kind whatever. Thi.s and four others were raised at the Vauxhall 

 Nurserjr, from seeds contained in one capsule of the pompone camellia, and sown in Nov, 

 1819. It was named in coinplimcnt to Mr. Alton, the king's gardener. {III.) Price, in 

 London, 7.'. 6rf.; and at Bollwyller, 50 francs. 



* e. J. 46 epsomeiisis Chandl. 111. The Epsom J. C, Young's semidouble red C — Figured 



in Chandl. III., t. 40. Raised by Mr. Young of Epsom, previously to 1824. It is Tobu.st 

 in habit ; its flowers are much like those of the semidouble red, but of a deeper colour, 

 and with more petals. It is prone to vary in the number of petals : when they are nu- 

 merous, some of the stamens are transformed into small, roundish, spathulate, striped, 

 red petals, all of which, as well as Ihe large outer ones, are tolerably evenly arranged 

 over one another, and distinctly marked with dark-coloured veins. The usual colour of 

 the flowers is a deep red, approaching to scarlet, and their widtii about 3 in. {III}. 



h. Varieties raised in Britain that are figured and described in British Works, 

 exclusive of those figured and described in Chandler and Booth^s Illustrations 

 of the Canielliese. 



« C. J. 47 ColvUlX Smt. Br. Fl.-Gard., 2 ser. Colvill's J. C — Figured in Siut. Br. Fl.-Gard., 

 2. s. t. 2., and described there ; whence it appears that its petals are striped like those of 

 the carnation, and that, when Mr. Sweet wrote the description, published in June, 1829, 

 he deemed it to be the finest and most beautiful variety that he had seen : this was pre- 

 Tious to the flowering of C. j. Sweetmnw. G. Don has described C. j. Colvillw, as " an 

 elegant hybrid, with the petals regularly disposed, blotched with white on a red ground." 

 {Don's Mill.., i, p. 3/6.) Price, in London, 10s. 6d. 



* C. J. 48 Sweeiiiimi Sw. Br. Fl.-Oard., 2. ser. Sweet's J. C, Sweet's painted-flowered C. — 



Figured in SivL Br. Fl.-Gard, 2. s. t. 133,, in March, 1S32. The flower bears a strong 

 resemblance to a beautiful variegated rose : it is generally very double, more spreading 

 than that of many varieties, and elegantly marked and variegated with white, blush, and 

 deep rosy red. It was the finest variety Mr. Sweet had seen, and one of numerous hybrid 

 varieties tiiat he had fertilised and raised from seeds, several years before (perhaps about 

 1824), in the nursery of Mr Colvil). This was the offspring 'of the double-striped, fer- 

 tilised by the pompone: the foliage resembles most that of the latter, but the leaves are 

 larger ; and the plant, if not seen in flower, might be mistaken for a strong-growing 

 single-flowered one. Sweet's camellia assimilates with Gray's invincible; but its 

 flower bud is larger, and its flower larger, and of a deeper colour, thai) those of that 

 variety. 



3Bt C. j. 49 KrughtW Lodd. Bot. Cah. Knight's J. C. — Figured in Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 1463. It 

 is staled in Chandl. ///., f. 31., that this approximates closely to C. j. insignis, and that it 

 was raised by Mr. Knight of the King's Road, Chelsea. 



c. Varieties raised in Britain, of which some Description has been jmblished . 



* C. j. 50 RdjTCf mfmdl Don's Mill. The Rose of the World J.C. — Flowers white and crim- 



son. {Don's Mill., i. p. 576.) Price, in London, 5s. ; at Bollwyller, 50 francs. 



* C. J. 51 Fre'ssii Don's Mill. Press's J. C. — Flowers single red. {Don's Mill., i. p. 576. 



* C. j. 52 riibro.punctala Don's MiU. The red-spotted-QovtaxeA J. C. — Flowers single, white, 



spotted with red. {Don's Mill., i. p. 576.) 

 •it C.J. 53 Elphinstonikna. Miss Blphinsione's J. C. — Flowers red. Raised by Sir. Knight, 

 {Siueet'sH. B.,^. 74.) Assimilates to C.j. Wfltonz. Chandl. {III., t. 13.) Price, in Lon- 

 don, 7s. 6rf. 



V. J. 54 single-striped and dotted. Ruriiard, in Gard. Mag., vol. ii. p. .358., has described 

 its fiovvers as having a clear white ground, with pink stripes, and dotted all over with 

 small dots : they are large and bcaulilul ; and the variety was raised by Mr. Press, along 

 ' with the varieties punctata, A'tisa muiidi, Vriasii, and cclipsis, from seeds saved from a 



plant of the semidouble red, the flowers of wliidi had been fecundated with pollen of the 

 jingle white. 



