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ON CROSSES AND 
flowers of first-rate merit. — 11. v. Yictrix, or Victoria ; own 
sister to Lysimachus, equally regular, of the colour of a 
full-blown cabbage rose, paler near the edges. From the 
Chinese semidouble by Pompone. — 12. v. Picta, or Alcmene; 
very regular in general ; with a pink stripe usually on each 
petal, the white changing after some days to blush, some- 
times less regular, with one or two anthers ; very beautiful. 
From the Pompone. — 13. v. Spofforthiana rosea, or Idiina ; 
superior to the Peony-flowered in form and colour ; the 
flower has always some anthers like its parent. From the 
waratah by the striped. — 14. v. Foliolosa, or Amalthea ; 
flower-shaped like the rose-scented peonia edulis, v. rosea, 
red, with about 350 petals. — 15. v. Conferta, or Odin; fine 
double red, not regular. I have never seen any anthers in 
either this or the preceding. — 16. v. Porrecta, or Bellona ; 
fine crimson ; branches horizontal or weeping. From waratch 
by Pompone. — 17. v. Modesta, or Hebe; flower nearly regu- 
lar, of a delicate purplish pink. From waratah by 13. Iduna. 
— 18. v. Roslgena, or Penelope; double red. From a seed- 
ling from single red by striped, fecundated again by striped. 
— 19. v. Molesta, or Nemesis ; very double red, but a delicate 
plant. — 20. v. Venosa, or Venus ; flower regular, but not 
sufficiently full, red veined with white. This has produced 
but one flower yet, and I am not sure of its permanent supe- 
riority. Many others of much merit I have not thought 
worthy of being named ; and amongst them is one full- 
double red, raised immediately from the common small- 
flowered single red. I have a great multitude of seedlings 
which have not flowered yet, from which I anticipate much 
beauty and variety. I scarcely entertain a doubt that the 
double pink Camellia Sesanqua (Maliformis of Lindley) is a 
cross-bred plant between C. Japonica and Sesanqua; and, 
from its seeming sterility, I cannot but suspect that C. reti- 
culata is not a genuine species, but a cross, perhaps obtained 
from some species still unknown to us. 
Mr. Chandler obtained some very fine varieties from the 
waratah, impregnated by the striped, one season, but those 
which he has raised since have not proved good. It is, 
therefore, probable that there was some difference in the 
treatment of the plant or plants which bore seed for him 
that season, though accidental and unnoticed by him. His 
finest productions are eximia, somewhat like imbricata, Bi- 
roni, one-while called concinna, a very remarkable flower, 
