THE CAMELLIA. 
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29. C. jap. pauntata, dotted flowered, or Gray’s Invincible C. 
sometimes called Press’s Invincible, having been raised by Mr. Press, 
gardener to E. Gray, Esq. This variety and the two following ones, 
(marked 30 and 31, raised also by Mr. Press,) are certainly three 
splendid plants ; their chief fault consists in the great similarity they 
bear to each other; but notwithstanding this defect, they are suffi¬ 
ciently distinct in character to form three distinct varieties. The 
general character of their flowers, is a white ground, beautifully 
spotted or else touched with delicate hair lines of pale red, the shade 
of which is somewhat different in each variety. The plants were raised 
from seeds of semi-double red, the flowers of which had been im¬ 
pregnated with farina from the single white. Here I must be al¬ 
lowed to digress a little, for the purpose of warning those who may 
be commencing the cultivation of this admired genus, against a dis¬ 
appointment they will often meet with, I mean the disappointment so 
often experienced, arising from the extreme tendency of the seedling 
varieties to what is called by gardeners, sporting. The flowers, when 
expanded, are frequently of a ragged and irregular shape, besides 
being hut semi-double; nor is this all, the colour is at times not so 
true as it should be, more particularly the colours of those plants, 
which are termed the variegated or striped varieties. Frequently 
after purchasing a fine new variety, I have had the mortification of 
seeing it open a poor and (comparitively speaking) worthless flower; 
besides being exposed to the laughter of those to whom I had extol¬ 
led the beauty and splendour of my new purchase. However a se¬ 
cond flower, or at most, the next season, has amply rewarded me for 
my expense, trouble, and vexation ; but to return from this rather 
long digression. 
30. C. jap. rosa munda, vel venusta, Gray’s venus C. (See C. 
jap. punctata.) 
31. C. jap. splendida, Gray’s Eclipse C. (see C. jap. punctata.) 
32. C. jap. papaveracea, poppy-flowered C. A fine seedling 
from the Vauxhall Nursery. This, although a single variety, I must 
recommend to the notice of every cultivator. The flowers are large, 
numerous, and of a dark red colour, well relieved by the very promi¬ 
nent Stamina, rendered still more conspicuous hy their large and 
bright yellow anthres. The plant is still scarce, although it has a 
very rapid sale, so much so, that the Messrs. Chandler had but one 
plant left a few months since. 
33. C. jap. colvillii, Colville’s Carnation C. A very first-rate 
flower, raised four or five years since, at the nursery of the late Mr. 
Colville, of the King’s Road, Chelsea. The flower is very large, 
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