CAMEL'LIA RETICULA'TA. 
KETICULATED CAMELLIA. 
Class. Order. 
MONADELPHIA. POLY ANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ternstromiacea. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
Introduced 
China. 
6 feet. 
April, June. 
Shrub. 
in 1824. 
No. 1101. 
The name Camellia, was adopted in honour of 
Camellus, a Moravian Jesuit. He wrote a History 
of the plants of the Isle of Luzon, which forms a 
part of the Historia Plantarum of the deservedly 
celebrated John Ray. 
There is scarcely a shrub which ornaments our 
gardens that has received the same anxious atten- 
tion as cultivators have bestowed on the Camellia: 
and truly may it he said, none that more amply 
deserves such distinction. We freely confess that 
no collection of plants, brought together into one 
view, — no exhibition, although comprising the 
beauties of a hundred gardens, ever did, or will, 
equal, in its simple grandeur, a house of Camellias 
in full bloom. We do not allude to a nursery col- 
lection upon stages, in a thousand pots, forming an 
embankment like the silks in a mercer’s window. 
No ; the true splendour of the Camellia can only 
be seen in the garden erections of our nobility ; 
where, their roots, liberated from pot imprison- 
ment, give their branches a commensurate freedom, 
and these, luxuriating at the height of ten or fifteen 
feet, spread out their brilliant glossy foliage, as a 
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