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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ANEMONIFLORA ALBA. 
White Anemone-flowered Camellia. 
Camellia Anemoniftora Alba. Camellia Britannica, pi. 8. 
White Waratdh Camellia of the Gardens. 
WE have elsewhere remarked, that some good varieties have been ob¬ 
tained from seed of the Pompone. The present is one of them, which, 
we learn from the work above quoted, where it is figured, was produced 
at the Yauxhall Nursery, with four others, from five seeds contained in 
a capsule of the Pompone sown in November, 1819- 
The habit and general appearance of the plant are much the same as 
that of its parent. The branches are pale-coloured, erect, and slender. 
The leaves are stated, in the Camellia Britannica, to resemble the striped 
in shape, but they are of a lighter green, with more prominent veins. In 
our opinion, they approximate nearer, in form and colour, to the leaves 
of the Pompone and Pseony-flowered varieties, than to any other. They 
are, however, broader at the base, more veiny on the upper side, and 
have a stronger midrib. 
The flower buds are comparatively large and round, with thin, pale 
green, slightly pubescent scales. They are produced very freely, and 
have the good property of not dropping off before expansion, as the buds 
of some of the other varieties are apt to do. 
The flowers are about the same size as those of the Pompone, which 
they also very much resemble in the form and disposition of the pe¬ 
tals. They seldom exceed three inches and a half, or four inches in 
expansion, and are of a delicate white colour, a little striped, and occa¬ 
sionally spotted with pale red. The outer petals are large and spreading, 
about ten in number, and ranged in two rows; some of the mare recurved, 
and slightly undulated, but the greater part of them are nearly flat, 
roundish cordate, varying from an inch to an inch and a half in diame- 
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