THE 
FLORIST’S JOURNAL. 
July, 1843. 
CAMELLIA JAPONICA. 
WITH A FIGURE OF HALLYS SEEDLING-PULCHELLA ROSEA. 
We have on previous occasions urged on the attention of our 
readers the probability of acclimatizing this noble shrub, and 
we now revert to the subject, feeling convinced from success¬ 
ful instances we might quote, at Vauxhall, Tooting, Bicton, 
Hatfield, and other places, that there is nothing difficult in the 
way of those who wish to ornament their grounds with this 
splendid plant. 
In all the instances that have come under our observation, 
the plants have been placed out while young, having been pre¬ 
viously raised and grown to a certain size under glass. Now it 
is pretty generally allowed that plants form their tissue in ac¬ 
cordance with affecting circumstances under which they are 
placed; that is, if subject to a considerable amount of heat, the 
same plants form wood of a loose open texture, or as it is 
technically named u soft,” and a degree of laxity pervades their 
several parts, which under a lower and dryer temperature 
would have been close and hard, and consequently better 
adapted to withstand any attacks from cold, the action of 
which on the juices of plants we have before explained to be the 
disruption of the vessels containing it by the expansion of the 
fluids. It will then be clearly evident that plants whose tissue, 
wood, fibre, or by whatever name it may be called, is harder or 
toughened by induration to a low temperature, will be in a 
better condition to meet this strain than those can be, which 
have been subject to a greater heat and more excitement. 
This idea seems to have met the attention of our continental 
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