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that the roots may not get soddened with water, ‘‘as nothing injures them more than over-watering, particularly 
when they are not in a growing state.” When the plants are growing freely, they can scarcely have too much 
water, and they should be sprinkled over the leaves with a fine-rosed watering-pot. Camellias are propagated by 
cuttings, layers, grafting, and inarching, and the single red is generally used as the stock on which the young plants 
are to be grafted or inarched. Camellias are usually thought to look best in a house entirely devoted to them ; 
and they may be certainly grown best in such a situation, as there are many points in which they differ exceedingly 
from most other greenhouse plants. They like the shade, and they are injured by too much heat. When 
exposed to the full effect of the sun, the flowers very frequently fall off without opening, or as soon as they 
have opened; but they are the better for having bottom-heat after they have done flowering, and when they are 
making their young shoots. 
2.—CAMELLIA RETICULATA Lindl. THE RETICULATED-LEAVED CAMELLIA. 
Eneravines.—Bot, Reg., t. 1078; Bot, Mag., t. 2784; and our | reticulated. Flowers axillary, solitary. Calyx five-leaved, coloured. 
Jig. 1, in Pl. 13. Ovary silky. (G. Don.) 
Speciric Cuaracter.—Leayes oblong, acuminated, serrated, flat, 
Description, &c.—This splendid species is botanically separated from C. japonica only by its reticulated 
leaves and silky ovary; but it can never be confounded with any of the varieties of that species, by even the most 
casual observer, from the appearance of its large and elegant flowers, which contain from sixteen to eighteen very 
large petals, which are loosely arranged, and form in every respect a decided contrast to those composing the 
flowers of C japonica. The stamens, also, instead of being all joined together at the base, form several distinct 
bundles. This very handsome plant was brought over by Captain Rawes, in 1824. 
3.—CAMELLIA MALIFLORA Lindl. THE APPLE-BLOSSOM-FLOWERED CAMELLIA. 
Synonyme.—C. Sasanqua flore pleno Ker. Spreciric CuaracTer.— Leaves obovate, convex, bluntly serrated. 
Eneravines.—Bot. Reg., t. 547; Bot. Mag., t. 2080; and our fig. | Flowers terminal and axillary, usually solitary. Branches and petioles 
3, in Pl. 13. pubescent. Ovary smooth. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—This beautiful little plant has small semi-double pink flowers, which bear considerable 
resemblance to some kinds of apple-blossom. It is a native of China, from which country it was brought to 
England in 1816. It is rather more tender than C. japonica or C. reticulata. | When it was first introduced, it 
was supposed to be a variety of C. Sasanqua. 
4.—CAMELLIA SASANQUA Thunb. LADY BANKS’S CAMELLIA. 
Synonymes.—Thea oleosa Lowr.; Cha-whaw Staunt.; Sasanqua Kempf. 
Enecravines.—Bot. Reg., t. 12, and t. 1091. 
Speciric Cuaracrer.—Leaves ovate-oblong, serrated. Flowers terminal and axillary, solitary. Branches and ovary villous. (G. Don.) 
Description, &c.—This plant forms a small tree, somewhat larger than the Tea tree, but smaller than 
Camellia japonica. Sir George Staunton, in his account of Lord Macartney’s embassy to China, describes it in 
the following terms :—‘“ A plant very like the Tea flourished, at this time, on the sides and the very tops of 
mountains, where the soil consisted of little more than fragments of stone, crumbled into a sort of coarse earth 
by the joint action of the sun and rain. The Chinese call this plant Cha-whaw, or Flower of Tea, on account of 






