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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ROSEA. 
Middlemist's Red Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Carnea. Loddiges’s Botanical Cabinet, t. 455. Horti¬ 
cultural Society’s Transactions, Vol. 7. 
Camellia Japonica Rosacea. Curtis’s Monograph, pi. 4. 
Camellia Japonica var. Rose-coloured. Botanist’s Repository, t. 660, f. 1. 
THIS variety, as stated by Messrs. Loddiges in their Botanical Cabinet 
above referred to, was formerly cultivated under a multitude of names, 
such as the Rose, the Pink, the Fawn-coloured, Paony-flowered, See. but 
is now commonly known by the name we have adopted. It is so very 
like the Semidouble-red, in habit and foliage, as to render it difficult to 
distinguish them from one another, unless when in flower; they are 
however perfectly distinct. Both of them are vigorous growing sorts, 
and soon attain to a large size. When the plants are eight or ten years 
old, they flower freely, but in a young state the flowers are sparingly 
produced. 
The branches grow nearly erect, and are of a pale brown colour. 
The leaves are comparatively round, convex and ovate, broad at the 
base, and much recurved at the point and edges. The serratures are 
rather deep and sharp. 
The colour of the leaves is a dark shining green, with a peculiar 
palish hue, which, together with their convexity, gives them a character 
by which they may easily be recognised. The footstalks are of a dull 
green, and seldom exceed half an inch in length. 
The flower buds are nearly round, and of a dull pale green, covered 
with several roundish slightly pubescent scales, which, like those of 
some of the other varieties we have described, are liable to become 
brown at the edges. This, however, we have reason to think, may be 
attributed to the plants being generally kept in too high a temperature. 
The flowers are late in opening, most of them being in perfection 
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