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CAMELLIA JAPONICA FLORE PLENO ALBO. 
Double White Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica flore albo plena. Botanist’s Repository, t. 25. 
Camellia Japonica alba plena. Loddiges’s Bot. Cab. t. 269. 
Double White Camellia. Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 2. 
THE Double White, or, as it has been sometimes called, the “ Bourbon 
Camellia is one of the most elegant varieties in cultivation. It is also 
one of the oldest we are acquainted with, having been first brought to 
this country in 1792, by the same gentleman who has the honour of 
being the introducer of the Double-striped, represented at folio 6, of 
this work. It differs considerably in its habit from the other sorts, and 
is always readily distinguished from them; being rather less robust in 
growth, and much paler in the colour of its leaves and branches. It is 
among the earliest in coming into blossom, and continues longer in per¬ 
fection than almost any other variety. 
The leaves are four inches long, and rather more than two inches 
broad, ovate acuminate, slightly convex, and undulated. They taper 
to a long, narrow, somewhat recurved point, and are always very sharply 
serrated, unless towards the footstalk, where the serratures are generally 
blunt and indistinct. Their colour is a vivid, shining green, similar to 
that of the leaves of Lady Hume’s Blush variety, figured at folio 7; and, 
like them, they are strongly reticulated on the upper side, but differ in 
tapering regularly to both ends, and in not being widest at the point. 
The midrib and footstalk are both of a pale yellowish green colour; the 
latter is comparatively short, and nearly round. 
The flower buds are often produced in clusters, at the extremity of 
the shoots; before beginning to swell, they are a little pointed, and of 
the same colour as the leaves, but when fully grown, they become 
round, and change to a very delicate silvery green colour. The scales 
are large, round, and very pubescent, tinged with brown at the edges. 
The flowers are from three and a half, to four inches in diameter, 
and are at all times the most regularly formed of any of the Camellias, 
the petals being disposed in a series of circles, from the circumference to 
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