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CAMELLIA JAPONICA P^ONIFLORA ROSEA. 
Red Paony-flowered Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Pceoniflora. Botanist’s Repository, t. 660. Loddiges’s 
Botanical Cabinet, t. 238. 
Camellia Japonica Pceoniftora Rosea. Transactions of the Horticultural 
Society, Vol. 7. Plate 14. No. 4. 
IN our account of the Pompone Camellia, at fol. 9, we have mentioned 
three varieties of the Pseony-flowered, and hinted at the probability of 
the whole having been originally obtained from the Various-flowered. 
We were led to form this conjecture from having seen branches of the 
latter variety that were grafted, continue to produce perfect flowers of 
the Pompone, and Red and Blush Pseony-flowered, upon separate 
plants, without shewing the least disposition to vary, or return to the 
changeable character of the plant from which they originated. The 
point, however, cannot be satisfactorily determined; but certain it is, 
that, unless when in flower, neither of the above-named varieties can be 
distinguished from one another; all of them being the same in habit, 
growth, and foliage. Even the flowers only differ in colour. Those of 
the present variety are of a bright rose, marked with darker-coloured 
veins. Their size and form, and the arrangement of the petals, is in 
every way similar to that of the Pompone already described, which * 
renders it unnecessary for us to enter into a minute detail respecting it. 
It is believed to have been first imported by Captain Welbank, for 
Charles Hampden Turner, Esq., of Rooksnest, Surrey, about the year 
1810. A faithful representation of it, and of the two other varieties ol 
Pseony-flowered, with the Pompone, will be found in the Transactions 
of the Horticultural Society, Vol. 7- plate 14. In the Botanist’s Reposi¬ 
tory, and Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, there are also tolerably good 
figures of it. 
