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CAMELLIA JAPONICA CONCINNA. 
Chandler's Elegant Camellia. 
THE first plant of this variety which flowered, we recollect to have 
seen exhibited at the meeting- of the Horticultural Society, on the 17th 
of April, 1827- It was raised at the Vauxhall Nursery, by Messrs. 
Chandler, in 1819, from seed of the Waratah, and possesses much beauty, 
although its flowers are not so brilliant as some we have represented. 
At present we believe it is little known, and in few collections; but in 
a short time hence, we hope to see it generally cultivated. 
Its habit is rather peculiar, the branches being deeply coloured, 
and clothed with foliage somewhat resembling the Single Red, but 
smaller, and flatter, with a sharper and more recurved point, and with 
the round slender footstalk which characterises the Waratah. 
The flower buds are roundish oval, pale yellowish green, with the 
scales slightly tinged with brown at the edges, and very pubescent. 
The flowers are of a fine rose colour, very regularly formed, and 
open well. When fully expanded, they measure rather more than three 
inches in diameter, and are little inferior in appearance to the flowers 
of Eximia, represented at folio 12, or Imbricata, at folio 22, the petals 
being nearly as numerous, and arranged with equal nicety over one 
another, from the circumference to the centre. The exterior petals are 
at first concave, but by degrees spread almost flat. They are each of a 
roundish form, and about an inch in diameter. The interior ones are 
small and pointed, and rise erect, as in the flowers of the two varieties 
above mentioned, to which the one now before us, has considerable 
resemblance. We shall, however, briefly state the most obvious cha¬ 
racters by which each of them may be distinguished. In Eximia, the 
