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THE FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
lawns, rivalling the rhododendron, for we fully maintain that 
although they have been known since 1740, their constitutional 
habits have never been fully or fairly tried. 
Our present illustration, The Monarch, was obtained by Mr. 
Hally, nurseryman, Blackheath, from seed accidentally saved 
from the old double-striped variety, and has all the good qua¬ 
lities of that still valuable kind more strikingly developed; the 
ground colour is a brilliant scarlet, reticulated with deep crim¬ 
son veins, generally spotted more or less with white; but this 
spotting, Mr. Hally remarks, depends greatly on the preceding 
year’s treatment, of which we shall speak presently; but first 
we must beg to call the attention of our readers to the advan¬ 
tages derived from a proper attention to raising of seedlings. 
This is a branch of gardening particularly suited to amateurs, 
and in which they may very far excel all others; it matters not 
what are the subjects chosen, they may be camellias or car¬ 
nations, or anything else that is suited to the conveniences at 
hand, but it is in this the cultivator may signalize himself. We 
have before remarked on the pleasure derivable from this course, 
and are convinced no person who once commences the pursuit 
ever resigns it willingly; we shall enter more fully into the 
subject of raising seedling camellias after giving the general cul¬ 
ture of the mature plants. 
The camellia, as is well known, is much cultivated in the 
northern parts of China and Japan; there are only five species 
known to us, two of them, C. Bohea and C. Viridis, are those 
usually grown for the domestic drug tea; C. Japonica is there 
as with us a very favorite ornamental shrub ; besides these there 
are C. Sasanqua and a double variety of the same, both orna¬ 
mental, but not so much so as C. Japonica. The first two, or 
tea plants, are seldom retained in our gardens except as bota¬ 
nical curiosities; and Sasanqua, though pretty, is greatly inferior 
to Japonica, which consequently supersedes it; and from this 
species all the varieties which at the present time grace our 
conservatories have been derived. 
In giving the culture of this species, we cannot do better than 
use Mr. Hally’s words, as he is at the same time an extensive 
and eminently successful cultivator; the first point touched on 
is that we before mentioned, the manner of drawing out the 
colours in the most eminent degree of those which are naturally 
