Plate 296. 
KERRI A JAPONIC A YARIEGATA. 
Among the many plants with variegated foliage which have 
been introduced from Japan, this form of the old and well- 
known Kerria of our gardens is likely to attract special notice, 
and we have therefore added it to our illustrations. A plant 
of it was exhibited at one of the spring shows of the Royal 
Horticultural Society by Mr. Charles Turner, of Slough, and 
was much admired. 
The whole subject of variegation and its causes has lately 
been a good deal ventilated, and with it also that of double 
flowers, Professor E. Morren maintaining that variegated leaves 
and double flowers never co-exist, although his theory was 
somewhat disturbed by this very plant being figured in 4 Illus¬ 
tration Horticole ’ with double flowers; it was found, however, 
that the artist had made up the figure with the variegated 
leaves of one plant and the double flowers of another! 
A writer in a contemporary, in speaking of this subject, says, 
44 One of Fortune’s variegated Camellias which has lately 
flowered in Mr. Bull’s establishment and has been figured in the 
4 Journal of Botany,’ is also calculated to strengthen Professor 
Morren’s position. Until now, few of the plants of Camellia 
Japjonica in our gardens have been known to produce flowers 
in the strictly normal condition, namely, with five petals only; 
and Dr. Seemann, when publishing his monograph on Camellia 
and Thea, was compelled to state that, though we had thou¬ 
sands of representations of the different varieties of Camellia 
Japonica , we did not possess a single plate exhibiting its normal 
condition,—even Siebold and Zuccarini, in their 4 Flora Japo¬ 
nica,’ having figured a form with semi-double flowers. Bull’s 
variegated Camellia, with its five petals, is therefore as happy 
