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the colour of the parent plant. I have had greater success 
than any other person in raising from seed double camellias 
of various tints and appearance, and some of the best have 
been produced either from single flowers or plants raised 
from single ones, impregnated by the pollen of double 
flowers, preferring, where it can be got, the pollen that is 
borne on a petal. The new seedlings that flowered with me 
in one spring for the first time were nine full double ; three 
semidouble, of which one was very fine, and only three 
single ; but such an unusual result is not to be obtained 
without particular attention to the mode of treating the 
mother plant while in flower and seeding : the method 
which I have adopted being to keep it in confined air, with a 
superabundance of water, even to the detriment of its health, 
and to prevent it from making young shoots, in a great mea- 
sure, if not entirely, by which means an exuberant degree of 
nutriment is forced to the seed-vessel. The reason that the 
seedlings raised by some nurserymen are so very inferior is, 
that their plants are in the most luxuriant growth ; and it 
cannot be expected that seed gathered from individuals 
growing with freedom and vigour, should not be more dis- 
posed to reproduce the natural form of the plant, than to 
yield the fine cultivated varieties, which are to be obtained 
from them when almost diseased by repletion. The finest 
double varieties of Camellia Japonica which I have so raised 
are as follows : — 
From the single white by the pollen of the Pompone, 1. var. 
Spofforthise, or Spofforth striped , very large and very 
double, white, with a few pink stripes, and occasionally one 
or two anthers. — 2. v. Maculosa, or Calypso , do. — 3. v. Hay- 
locki, or Haylock's white; pure white, rarely a few anthers. 
— 4. v. Eburnea, or Ebur ; very vigorous, pure white; some- 
what waratah shaped. — 5. v. Nivosa, or Nitor ; double white, 
variable in form.— 6. v. Fortuita, or Fortuna ; very like var. 1. 
— 7. v. Lactescens, or Luna ; double white. From seedlings 
impregnated by the Pompone, which had been raised from 
the common single red by the striped. — 8. v. Pumila, or 
Circe ; regularly formed double white dwarf myrtle-leaved. 
— 9. v. Ulantha, or Hylas; white striped with pink; flowers 
in four uniform compartments. — 10. v. Lysantha, or Eysi- 
machus ; flowers if possible more regular than the buff or 
old double white, red with a watery white line and margin 
to each petal. A very erect plant of rapid growth with 
