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CAMELLIA JAPONICA WOODSII. 
Mr. Wood's Camellia. 
THIS is a variety which we think equals, in beauty, any we have yet 
laid before the public. It originated with Mr. Chandler at the Vaux- 
hall Nursery, about the year 1819, and was named in compliment to 
Mr. Woods of Camberwell Grove, who, we understand, is a great admirer 
of Camellias. 
Although a seedling from the Waratah, it possesses but few of the 
characters which so readily distinguish that variety from any other. 
The branches are upon the whole more vigorous, and of a lighter colour; 
many of them are rather depressed, after having borne flowers, but 
their usual habit is to grow nearly erect. 
The leaves are large and ovate, tapering gradually from the base, 
where they are broadest, to a narrow point. They each measure about 
four inches in length, and two inches in breadth, and are of a deep 
shining green, a little paler than the Waratdh. They are comparatively 
thin, and much recurved, with a strong, prominent, pale-coloured mid¬ 
rib. The serratures are large and unequal. The footstalks are mode¬ 
rately long, round, and slender, like those of the Warat&h, and tinged 
with brown on the upper side. 
The flower buds are oval, of a dull green, changing before expan¬ 
sion to a pale silvery green colour. The scales are large, thin, roundish 
concave, and not very pubescent. 
The flowers are particularly handsome and well formed. When 
fully open, they seldom measure less than four inches in diameter. Their 
colour is a pale red, similar to that of the common Provins rose, which 
at a distance they may be said to resemble, excepting that they are 
larger, and not so double. The whole of the petals are ranged pretty 
regularly over one another. The exterior ones are large and spreading, 
of a roundish cordate form, varying from an inch, to an inch and a half 
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