THE CAMELLIA. 
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To many, I know they will be useless, to these persons I must apo- 
logize, not for wasting their time, for they must skip and turn to 
something more useful ; but for occuijying so many pages of the 
Register, which I confess might be so much better filled up by abler 
and wiser heads. I must not forget to express my obligations to 
Messrs. Chandler and Booth, to whose valuable work on the Camel- 
lia, I am indebttd for much of what follows. 
G. A. L. 
May 26tli, 1832. 
1. Came'llia Japo'nica, the old single red Camellia, introduced 
in 1739 ; chiefly cultivated for the sake of cuttings, to raise stocks, 
upon which to inarch and graft the finer varieties. 
2. C. Jap. Flor'a Ple'na A'lba, the old double white C. intro- 
duced 1792. This variety is too well known, and too beautiful to re- 
quire any recommendation, or comment. — Indeed, I think it is the 
finest in cultivation. 
3. C. JAP. ru'bra ple'na, the old double red, or Greville's red C, 
Introduced in 1794, by Sir Robert Preston, of Valley -Fields. Al- 
though not so much cultivated as some of the other varieties, yet no 
collection should be without it. Messrs. Chandler and Booth ob- 
serve, that it does not flower well before it attains a considerable age. 
The flowers from three inches to three and a half in diameter. 
4. C. jap. incarna'ta, vel flave'scens. Lady Hume's Blush 
or Buflf C. Introduced in 1806, for the late Lady Hume, of Worm- 
lebury, Hertfordshire. A fine and beautiful flowering variety, and 
well desei-ving of cultivation ; but requires often to be pi'uned, or it 
becomes straggling in its growth. 
5. C. jap. anemone flor'a. Anemone flowered, or red Wara- 
tah C. introduced in 1806. A very fine and distinct variety, but 
its flowers drop much sooner than those of the other kinds. Many 
fine seedlings have been raised by impregnation from this variety. 
6. C. JAP. variega'ta, the double- striped C. introduced in 1792, 
by Capt Conner, for the late John Slater, of the India House. A 
fine variety, but like most of the variegated Camellias, nodependance 
can be placed upon the flower coming striped with white. — Indeed, 
during the last few years, this variety appears to have degenerated. 
Mr. Chandler recommends, that it should be forwarded in the stove, 
in a warm part of the green house, so that the plant may flower late 
in the autumn, or early in spring, — because, when thus heated, it is 
generally more variegated, than when flowered later in the season. 
