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CULTURE OF ,THE CAMELLIA. 
other places in the south or west of England, it would succeed pretty well if 
trained against a wall ; hut as an open shrubbery plant we think it will never 
flourish in this country : besides, if it were to succeed so as to form flower-buds, at 
the time it would come into flower, the weather is usually so boisterous that a 
flower could scarcely be open a day before it would be destroyed. It is evidently 
more adapted for a conservatory or green-house, where its beauty is become 
proverbial. 
If moderate attention be paid to them in a common frame, they may be grown 
to a great degree of perfection. All the attention requisite in this situation is to 
give them plenty of air in mild weather, throughout the winter ; to protect them 
well from frost with litter, old hay, or mats ; and to keep a higher temperature in 
the frame at the time they are growing, and forming their flower buds, than at any 
other season. A few plants may be taken out of the frame about Christmas, and 
placed in the window of a warm room, where they will flower for a long time ; and 
these may again be succeeded by others ; and thus a succession may be kept up for 
several months. 
The Camellia, like the orange, but in a much less degree, is subject to the 
scaly bug (coccus). The only effectual remedy is to pick them off, and rub the 
parts affected with a little soft soap. The green fly (aphis), will sometimes attack 
the young green wood : here immediate smoking with tobacco is the remedy. By 
frequently syringing the leaves during the summer, and washing them with a 
sponge two or three times in the course of the winter, the health of the plants will 
be improved, the attacks of the insects prevented, and the beauty of the foliage 
shown to more advantage. 
SELECT LIST OF THE VARIETIES AND SPECIES. 
White. 
C. Japonica, flora plena alba 
fimbriata 
— anemoneflora alba 
— . Welbankii 
_ Sabiniana 
___ excelsa 
alba simplex 
— compacta. 
Red. 
C. Japonica 
— rubra plena 
» anemoneflora 
— carnea 
— myrtifolia 
_ splendens 
— crassinervis 
— rubicaulis 
Reevesiana 
— concinna 
— Rossii. 
Buff or Light Yellow. 
C. Japonica, incarnata. 
Changeable Coloured. 
C. Japonic:’, pompona. 
Very Dark Red. 
C. Japonica, corallina 
- — papaveracea. 
White Ground , Spotted or Striped with Red . 
C. Japonica, punctata 
— - rosa mundi 
— splendida 
Colvillii. 
Red Ground, Striped with White. 
C. Japonica, variegata 
. — . dianthiflora 
— Wiltonii 
• — Chandleri 
— speciosa 
. — Parksii. 
Light Red. 
C. Japonica, paeoniflora 
— eximia 
— imbricata 
— rosa sinensis 
— rosea 
— W oodsii 
— elegans. 
Very Light Red. 
C. sasanqua rosea. 
