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CAMELLIA “PRINCESS FREDERICK WILLIAM.” 
(Plate 139 .) 
We have frequently noticed in our pages the many valuable 
plants transmitted to English gardens by that enterprising 
traveller Mr. Fortune, when resident in China, of which the 
Camellia-flowered Peach and Farfugium grande have been 
already figured in the Florist ; and we again avail ourselves, 
through the kindness of Mr. Glendinning, of the Chiswick 
Nurseries, who holds the stock, of giving a coloured plate of a 
new Chinese Camellia from the same collection, and which is 
unquestionably the handsomest variety in cultivation as a 
striped or mottled kind. 
Blooms of this and another variety from the same 
country called Cup of Beauty, which will be figured in our 
July number, were exhibited by Mr. Glendinning before the 
Horticultural Society on the 2nd of February last, and received 
a first prize, and were greatly admired by all who saw them. 
Highly creditable as are many collections of Camellias in 
British gardens in point of general management, yet taken as 
a whole they will bear no manner of comparison with the 
magnificent plants reared by Belgian and French gardeners, 
where entire collections are to he met with trained into a 
pyramidal or columnar form, and from 12 to 25 feet in height, 
and so thickly furnished with wood and foliage of the deepest 
green as to hide completely the interior of the plant; and as 
the flower buds are thinned out to regular distances over the 
surface of the plants, nothing can exceed the gorgeous display 
they make when in bloom. These pyramids and columns of 
richest green, being entirely studded over with flowers of every 
shade, from the deepest crimson to the most delicate peach and 
purest white, their beauty being heightened in many varieties 
by the protrusion of their rich orange coloured anthers through 
the petals;—these latter and bizarre varieties appear to be 
more prized on the continent than with us, although cupped 
and imbricated flowers are also great favourites. The only 
class of plants we have that can be said to compete with the 
continental Camellias is our Chinese Azaleas, in the manage¬ 
ment of which English gardeners are as superior to the 
Belgians as the latter are to ourselves with the Camellia. A 
stage of Azaleas, such as may be seen at any of the great 
spring exhibitions near London, forms one of the grandest 
combinations of colour to he met with in the floral world. But 
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