You have a new experience in store when you ‘‘discover” 
Camellias, learn their infinite variety, their awe-inspiring 
perfection. These delightful winter-blooming evergreens will 
create a new and unflagging interest in your life. 
The flowers of fine Camellias are thrilling, with their alluring 
color tones, their perfect and numerous forms, their appealing 
individualities. 
Lovers of flowers cannot restrain their admiration and 
enthusiasm for these brilliant blossoms of exotic beauty, of stately 
grandeur. 
Their easy culture and winter hardiness in Southern gardens, 
or in “cool” greenhouses, make it a delight to own and grow them. 
Europe and America are indebted to China for the introduction 
of these winter gems of floriculture. They were brought to Europe 
by George Joseph Kamel in 1739. However, they were at first 
killed by kindness, through the mistaken notion that they must 
be kept in hot greenhouses in winter months. 
Far from needing coddling. Camellias are sturdy. Thunberg 
in his “Flora Japonica”, published in the 1784’s, says that 
Camellias endure six degrees above zero.^ Curtis, publishing the 
Botanical Magazine at the same period, in Vol. 1, No. 1, 1788, 
declares thev may be as hardy as laurels and magnolias. 
Numerous authorities can be cited as to their hardiness against 
cold if properly cared for. Their winter hardiness, resistance to 
cold, depends largely on congenial root environment, (soil) with 
the associated factors of plant foods in balance, shade from morning 
sunshine during sub-freezing weather, and proper mulching of the 
ground. 
Under greenhouse or cold-frame culture. Camellias are tolerant 
to extreme cold, many varieties opening their buds freely at such 
times. 
Of course. Camellias are not so hardy as Polar bears or 
Antarctic Penguins. Accordingly, we do not recommend to plant 
them outdoors in Central, Northern and Mountain states. They 
thrive in outdoor gardens along the coast from Norfolk, Va., and 
through the Gulf States, as well as along the Pacific Coast as far 
north as Vancouver, B. C. 
Growing good Camellias as a hobby brings lasting joy, thrills ever new 
and augmenting enthusiasm as the flowers unfold in a constant succession, 
revealing their faultless beauty, like gems amidst their glossy, dark-green 
foliage. 
You will not regret your investment in LONGVIEW Camellias. No other 
outlay of money will bring so much pleasure and so lasting as that you may 
expect from LONGVIEW Camellias. The proof that good Camellias become 
treasured possessions as years pass is that seldom do you find an owner who 
can be persuaded to sell a choice plant. 
On the other hand, if one can be persuaded to sell, there is a profit in it. 
Many customers who have bought from us in the past fifteen years have 
resold their plants for ten to twenty times their cost. 
No other investment you may make is so sure to repay in satisfaction 
as long as you keep it, in enhanced money value if you sell it. 
Stop and think! What other investment did you make last year, five 
years ago, or ten years ago, that still represeHts a profit or the possession 
of which gives you constant satisfaction? We can safely say if you bought 
LONGVIEW Camellias, good varieties, for we grow no other, they give and 
will continue to give you, renewed eagerness for each returning season of 
bloom. And if you desire, you have an opportunity to sell them at a 
substantial advance on what they cost you. 
When you acquire LONGVIEW Camellias, you make an investment 
in abiding satisfaction. Nobody can tell you convincingly of the deep and 
intriguing allure of owning a choice collection of LONGVIEW prize-winning 
Camellias. You just have to try it yourself. 
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Photographs, text and layout of this Price List, by 
Robt. O. Rubel, Jr., Camellia Specialist, Crichton, Ala. 
