CAMEL'LIA JAPON'ICA. 
Var. Alcamene. 
HERBERTS CAMELLIA. 
Olass. Order 
MONADELPHTA. POLYANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
TERNSTROMTACEA2. 
Native of 
Height. 
Flowers in 
H abit. 
Raised 
China. 
10 feet. 
April. 
Shrub. 
in 1842? 
No. 1225. 
A Jesuit, named Camellus, is commemorated in 
the name of the plant here figured. 
Under No. 1171, we described a method of cul- 
ture, by which the Camellia may be successfully 
grown and flowered in the open garden. We have 
no experience respecting the hardiness of this par- 
ticular variety ; its great beauty, however, claims 
for it a place in these pages. As a pot plant, and 
assisted by the cold frame, or protectors, it may 
doubtless be grown and flowered. It was raised at 
Spofforth, by the late Hon. and Rev. William Her- 
bert, Dean of Manchester, and by him esteemed as 
the most interesting of his rarities. 
Our drawing was made from flowers which were 
obligingly supplied by Mr. Errington, the talented 
gardener at Oulton Park, the seat of Sir Philip 
Egerton. The perfect symmetry of the flowers, and 
their charming tint, but more especially the former 
property, is unequalled amongst the numerous va- 
rieties in cultivation, of this very attractive genus. 
This being the case, many of our readers will, 
doubtless, be glad to possess a correct representa- 
tion of it. 
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