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CAMELLIA JAPONICA AITONI. 
Mr. Alton's Camellia. 
Camellia Japonica Aitonia. Chandler’s Camellia Britannica, pi. 3. Loudon’s 
Hortus Britannicus, p. 293. No. 36. 
FROM the Work we have just referred to, we learn that this Camellia, 
and four others, were raised at the Vauxhall Nursery, from seeds con¬ 
tained in a capsule of the Pompone, sown in November, 1819; and that 
it was named in compliment to William Townsend Aiton, Esq. of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew. It is, unquestionably, a very striking variety, 
and a most valuable one to the Camellia grower, on account of its pro¬ 
ducing seed more freely than any other kind whatever. In habit and 
general character it seems to resemble the Pompone; but the branches 
are upon the whole more vigorous, and the leaves flatter and more 
pointed. 
The flower buds are very large before expansion, and of a deep 
silvery green colour. They are at first a good deal pointed, but gra¬ 
dually become blunt, and almost round. 
The flower consists of only five or six large roundish, or roundish- 
cordate petals, each averaging from an inch and a half to two inches in 
diameter. They are faintly veined, and of a bright rose colour, mea¬ 
suring between three and four inches across, when fully expanded. 
Like the other Single Camellias, they are at first bell-shaped, the petals 
being closely imbricated at the base, and surrounding the cup or 
column of stamina, which rises conspicuously in the centre ; by degrees 
they spread open, until at last they become almost flat. The filaments 
are moderately strong, and of a delicate yellow colour. The anthers 
are remarkably large, and of a deep yellow. 
