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amateur and horticulturist?" The elegance of its form, the 
beautiful verdure of its foliage, and the pure and brilliant 
colours of the large and elegant flowers, suificiently justify 
the admiration of all. In fact, we may say, there is not a 
green-house in which this lovely plant has not found a place, 
where it stands in the first rank of floral population. To 
give a full description of all the varieties we know would 
occupy this volume. However, we will give lucid details of 
nearly one hundred of the finest we have seen in cultivation. 
But, in regard to the shades and spots of colour, we must 
throw ourselves on the charity of our readers ; for many 
sorts are very capricious in that particular ; though styled 
self-coloured, they may come spotted, and even those that are 
generally spotted sometimes show themselves of one colour. 
Camellia euryoides, flowers small, single white, and a little 
fragrant ; plant of a slender growth. 
0. oleiferia is cultivated principally in China for the oil 
which is expressed from its seeds, which is much used in the 
domestic cookery of the country ; flower single white. 
C. Sesanqua, Lady Banks's. The foliage of this species 
is very small, and paler, and the green not so fine as any of 
the others. It seeds freely, and is often used as the female 
parent in producing new varieties ; flowers small, white, and 
single, with many anthers. There are a semi-double and 
double variety of it of the same colour. 
C. sesanqua rosea, or malliflbra of some, double pink, 
small flowers, but in very great profusion ; the plant is of a 
free, upright growth. The flowers are of about four weeks' 
duration ; it is very much esteemed. 
C. kissi. Small single white; the only species that is a 
native of Nepaul. 
O. reticulata was brought from China by Capt. Rawes in 
1822. The foliage is very characteristic, being stiff and flat, 
distinctly serrated, nerves deeply sunken ; flowers bright-rose, 
of a loose form, and above six inches in diameter, semi- 
double. From present appearance, it will never be so plenty 
as many of the others, being tardy of propagation ; only a 
few eyes on the extremity of each shoot make young wood, 
and if these are cut off", the plant does not seem to push 
afresh. Magnificent. 
G. Japonica, small, single, red. It is supposed that this 
is the type of all the garden-cultivated varieties of the Ca- 
