THE 
CAMELLIA JAPONICA. 
Botanical Name, Camellia Japonica. —Class, Monadel- 
phia. —Order, Polyandria. — Flowers, avarietyof colours; 
red the prevailing one .—Native place, China, Japan. 
Sentiment. 
UNPRETENDING EXCELLENCE. 
ORIGIN OF THE SENTIMENT. 
This flower is large and beautiful, and in the 
form of a rose. Its excellence lies in its 
being an evergreen, with so splendid a bloom; 
but for the poets we should not have selected 
this sentiment. Among them may be men¬ 
tioned Roscoe, who has sung of 
“ The chaste Camellia’s pure and spotless bloom, 
That boasts no fragrance and conceals no thorn.” 
