Plate 12. 
CRIMSON CAMELLIA. 
Camellia japonica , var, punicea. 
This fine new Camellia is a worthy companion of the deli¬ 
cate striped variety figured in our first Plate, and, like it, pos¬ 
sesses all the points which constitute a first-rate kind. We are 
indebted to Messrs. Milne and Co., of Vauxhall, for the oppor¬ 
tunity of figuring it, and we learn from them the following par¬ 
ticulars of its history:— 44 The plant, which is an old one, was 
one of many seedlings raised by Messrs. Chandler and Sons, 
while proprietors of the Vauxhall Nursery, and had been 
planted out in an unfavourable position in a back corner of their 
Camellia-house, where it had struggled on without producing 
flowers until last year, when it bore one or two blooms, suffi¬ 
cient to show that it was a variety of great promise. The roots 
were accordingly cared for (it had before been growing in the 
pathway, of inferior hard-trodden soil); and the plant, having 
made good progress, produced in March, 1860, several fine 
blooms.” One of these Mr. Fitch has happily represented in 
the accompanying figure. 
The plant, though hitherto unfavourably circumstanced, is 
evidently one of vigorous habit, producing bold dark-green foli¬ 
age, of a broadly oval or somewhat obovate outline, sharply acu¬ 
minated, having a glossy surface, and an evidently serrated mar¬ 
gin. The flowers are full-sized, double to the centre; the petals 
of dense firm texture, smooth and even, cupped in the earlier 
stages, the flower in this cupped condition being of the richest 
crimson, and exceedingly bright, so that the other bright-red 
Plate 12.—Camellia japoxica, var. ptixicea: flowers large, full, double, 
of the richest bright-crimson colour, the petals cupped in the young state, 
spreading when full-blown. 
