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regular and oddly flattened, but very beautiful ; Woodsi, a 
large rose-coloured flower, quite double, but cup-shaped and 
hollow in the centre, requiring a little warmth to flower it in 
perfection ; Chandleri, striped, sometimes very fine, but not 
always equally so. His elegans, rosa sinensis, and florida, 
are handsome also ; corallina and althaeiflora sometimes, but 
often producing poor semi-double flowers. His anemoneflora 
alba comes very near in flower to its parent the Pompone, 
with a much less hardy constitution. Mr. Gray produced 
three cross-bred seedlings, of which Press’s eclipse is the 
best, and Colvill’s nursery two speckled seedlings of con- 
siderable merit, though very irregular, and too muddy in 
the colour. I have seen no other seedling Camellia that de- 
serves to be preserved, but I have been told that Mr. Gray 
has since raised a good red one. His former plants were 
said to have been crosses between the single white and 
Chinese semi-double. These observations may perhaps tend 
to the raising still finer varieties, when the mode of obtain- 
ing them is rightly understood. I have no difficulty in ob- 
taining seed from any given flower of the Pompone or Mid- 
dlemist’s Camellia, by putting it in a house rather warmer, 
arid with less admission of air, than suits greenhouse plants 
in general; impregnating the stigma, and taking off the 
corolla before it begins to decay, and cutting away the petals 
that adhere to the germen or young seed-vessel, that the air 
may have free admission to it ; without which precaution it 
will perish in most cases from damp. The striped sorts have 
usually more white in their flowers when they flower early 
in the spring, and it seems th&t the seed ripened earliest in 
the year is the most apt to yield white or pied seedlings. 
There is a strange mutability in the flowering of Camellias, 
of which the Pompone, which has been called on that account 
variabilis, furnishes a striking instance. It has four dis- 
tinguishable kinds of flower, the pure white and the red- 
eyed, which appear promiscuously, the brindled pink, 
and the rose-coloured, which may be kept separate with 
tolerable certainty by grafting from the branch that bears 
them, the rose-coloured form being the Peony-flowered of 
the nurserymen. There is a branch on my oldest plant of 
the peony-flowered, which has reverted to the pure white 
colour, an occurrence less common than the departure from 
it. Carnations, which have run to red, very seldom re- 
vert to the white-stripe. I have been informed that the 
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