CAMELLIA JAPON'XCA. 
Var. Imbricata. 
IMBRICATED JAPAN CAMELLIA. 
Class. 
MONADELPHIA. 
Natural Order. 
ternstromiace^e. 
Order. 
POLVANDRIA. 
Native of 
China. 
Height. 
Flowers in 
Habit. 
10 feet. 
April. 
Shrub. 
Introduced 
in 1824. 
No. 1171. 
Camellia is named after Camellus, see No. 1101. 
It has been a subject of inquiry, but generally 
without experiments, whether the Camellia can be 
satisfactorily cultivated out of doors, in England. 
We, at once, assert that it can, and to this consid- 
eiation we shall devote the present article. It has 
long ago been proved that the Camellia possesses as 
hardy a constitution as the Eaurel, but its vegeta- 
tive powers are more easily excited, and as regu- 
laily continued as in that plant, whilst placed under 
the influence of a moist stimulating soil, till checked 
by severe weather. In this lies the error that has 
attended the out-of-door culture of the Camellia. 
Its growth has been encouraged up to the very verge 
of winter, when frost has enveloped its succulent 
shoots, filled with watery, half-elaborated sap, which, 
in such state, readily yield to its influence, and 
the health of the whole plant becomes thereby 
affected. The disease being discovered, the remedy 
is evident. In its native climate it bears frost with 
impunity ; the principal varying circumstance, un- 
der which it there exists, is a far higher temperature 
in summer, than England possesses ; which drying 
