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CAMELLIA DON PEDRO. 
[Plate 575.] 
V E are indebted to Mr. W. Bull, of 
Chelsea, for the opportunity of pre- 
senting a figure of this very beautiful 
new Camellia, which bears the name 
of Don Pedro, and which is quite a recent 
acquisition. 
The dark green leaves are remarkably short 
and broad, with an acuminate point, and the 
margin is strongly and distinctly serrated. 
The flowers are of full medium size, closely 
imbricated, the outer portion becoming neatly 
and symmetrically reflexed; the broad petals 
are smooth at the edge, with a peculiar and 
very pleasing colouring, the marginal portion 
being white, while the inner parts at the base 
of the petals are of a rosy-carmine, run¬ 
ning outwards in lines from the base of the 
petals, but not reaching the outer half, which 
remains of a pure white ; this pretty rosy tint 
is not very evident in our figure, owing to the 
close imbrication of the petals, but showing 
up as it does from the inner depths of the 
flower it has a very pleasing effect. We think 
it will prove a very desirable introduction, and 
in the accompanying figure Mr. Macfarlane 
has well represented it in one of its phases. 
The basal colouring, it may be noted, is more 
evident in the freshly opened blossoms before 
many of the petals have become reflexed. 
A note may here be added of another White 
Camellia of a meritorious character, which we 
saw at the same time and place. It is called 
Jose Marquez Loureiro, and we believe will 
take rank as one of the good White Camellias 
which are ever welcome, since it has broad 
bold foliage, which is an admirable foil to the 
flowers, and which is wanting in the fine old 
Double White. The flowers are above medium 
size, and very full, made up of broad smooth- 
edged petals, the outer of which are reflexed, 
while the central ones retain the concave form. 
The colour is a pure white.—T. Moore. 
THE PICOTEE BLOOM OF 1882. 
f ND of Picotees—what shall I say of 
Picotees !—my early love, and still 
hidden, as we hide much-beloved 
things, in the deep recesses of my 
heart. Well, my first thought and desire is 
to record my grateful satisfaction that now 
I am enabled to see my pets, under my own 
care, again in their beauty. It was not the 
least of my troubles at Clapham that this 
was denied to me, but now, thank God, a 
purer atmosphere has given to me here, a 
beauty of colour and development which there 
could not be attained. At the risk of being 
charged with egotism, a risk perhaps in¬ 
separable to such a paper from such a writer, 
I must say I never had finer flowers, nor ever 
saw finer, during my long floricultural life. 
To begin with the heavy Red-edges, we had 
glorious examples of Brunette—though with 
this Mr. Douglas was far before me, Dr. Epps, 
exceedingly showy, and thought by many of 
my visitors the finest of the class, Countess 
of Wilton, John Smith, Mrs. Dodwell, Mrs. 
Wilson, Master Norman, Morna, and Peeress. 
In Medium-edges, Emily (Addis), Wm. Sum¬ 
mers, and Winifred Esther, were fine; and 
in Light-edges, though so limited in number, 
beautiful examples of Thomas William, Elsie 
Grace, and Clara, the latter effective in a high 
degree as a home stage flower. This class 
will have a grand addition this season in Mr. 
Simonite’s Mrs. Gorton, a flower every ad¬ 
mirer of the Picotee should possess. 
In Purple-edges we have a w'ealth of variety. 
In the Broad-edges, so effective whether on 
the home stage or exhibition table, we have 
Muriel (Hewitt), a glorious flower of the high¬ 
est excellence, distributed last year ; Mrs. A. 
Chancellor (Turner), only surpassed by Muriel, 
a flower of exceeding beauty ; and Medina, 
another most distinct flower, remarkable for 
its broad band of imperial purple. Leah, also 
in this class, is of great merit, but it is not so 
good a grower, and is too early as a rule for the 
exigencies of the exhibitor ; but it is a fine 
and highly desirable variety. To these Al¬ 
liance (Fellowes) should be added, though I 
have not been so successful with this variety 
as some of my brother cultivators. In the 
Narrow-edged heavies, Zerlina, Tinnie, and 
Lizzie Tomes were beautiful exceedingly, 
more beautiful than I ever remember to have 
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