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Camellia Society of America LOT 22, PURITY 
The Camellia Society of America offers assistance to 
members, regardless of where they live. The purpose of 
the Society is to promote the successful growing of 
Camellias, which is becoming more popular each year. 
In addition to the Society’s publications, an advisory 
service on all phases of culture, growing and etc., are 
offered through the secretary’s office. 
If interested, write, giving nationality, and furnish 
commercial references. 
Dues $1.00 per year, payable in advance. 
Address: 
H. T. Conner, Secretary, 
Camellia Society of America. 
Macon, Georgia 
EXTRA COPIES OF THIS 
Catalogue No, 79 
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“Some folks like books to pass the time, 
While other folks prefer a dog:; 
Some spend their means on slot 
But give me a LONGVIEW Catalogue.** 
There is something about pure white, double flowering 
Camellias which brings back memories of “yester-years”, 
when Camellias were the favourite flowers of royalty. 
PURITY is one of the many names applied to a large 
white flowering, imbricated Camellia, fairly well known 
among collectors who have probably bought plants on the 
Pacific coast as NEIGE d’OREE, WHITE PERFECTION, or 
SH1RO-OTOME. We have even known it to be sold as 
ALBA PLENA, which is a gross mis-representation or 
counterfeit name. 
At least one southern nursery is now offering a variety 
under dual names of ANNA ZUCCHINI and PURITY. From 
their description, we are positive the Camellia they sell is 
distinct and inferior to the PURITY generally known among 
other nurseries. 
According to newspaper reports, another prominent 
southern nurseryman claims to have raised a very fine 
seedling white Camellia by crossing ALBA PLENA with 
NEIGE D OREE. Barnum WAS right. The public likes 
to be fooled. A cross pollenization of these two varieties 
would be a 20th century miracle. ALBA PLENA has no 
sexual organs, and is classed as a “mule of horticulture.” 
A nice piece of publicity for the gullible public, which even 
deceived a governor and his wife. 
After searching European catalogues, Camellia mono¬ 
graphs and old horticultural books, proof of the correctness 
of any of the above names is lacking. 
The flowers of PURITY reach 31/2 inches in diameter, 
petals imbricated, diminishing in size toward the center, 
with minute golden anthered stamens, showing only when 
the blossom is fully opened. While generally described as 
medium to late flowering, our stock has bloomed as early 
as November. 
There is elegance in perfection of form in this snowy- 
white Camellia, which blooms profusely whether grown 
in gardens of mild wintered climates, or under greenhouse 
culture in the North. 
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Address all Inquiries and Orders to 
'Longview" Crichton, Ala.^ 
ROBT. O. RUBEL, Jr, Prop. 
Camellia Specialist 
"LONGVIEW” LOT 88 
From the Botanical Cabinet, printed in London, April. 
1819, let us quote: 
“We consider this beautiful variety of the Camellia to 
be the most valuable acquisition to the greenhouse. It is 
a free grower, and somewhat more slender in its shoots 
than most of the other kinds. . . . The spring is the principal 
season of its blooming, although, like the others, it frequently 
begins in autumn, when it was in great perfection. ... It 
was imported about the year 1810 from China, by Captain 
Welbank.” 
This same Camellia illustrated in the Transactions of 
the Horticultural Society of London, Vol. VII, 1830, and 
described as VARIABILIS or the various-flowered Camellia, 
as follows: “This kind is remarkable for producing no 
less than four different coloured flowers upon the same 
plant; . . . namely the red, white, and Blush varieties of 
the Peony-flowered, and the Pompone.” 
Here at LONGVIEW, we have been growing this 
Camellia since 1932, and find it blooms freely from 
November to March, producing an abundance of enchanting 
flowers of gleaming beauty. It is a heritage from China, the 
store house of innumerable flowering plants, and the home 
of Camellias. 
While called the various-flowered Camellia, 121 years ago, 
there are numerous varieties of distinctly different Camellias 
now sold as VARIOUS-FLOWERED and VARIABILIS. 
The parent plant from which we propagated our stock, 
has been growing on an old southern plantation for slightly 
more than 100 years. Historically, there can be no doubt 
concerning the identity of this aristocratic immigrant from 
China. 
The 3% to 4 inch diameter peony formed flowers, in all 
the different colors and color combinations, represents one 
of the finest Camellias for either garden or conservatory 
culture. The brilliancy in the pink flowers and the 
daintiness of the blush varieties, of these blossoms, delights 
the most rabid Camellia connoisseur. 
When you have bought this Camellia, you have the 
satisfaction of knowing there are many thrills in store for 
you, each season when the plant comes into flower, long 
after you have forgotten what you paid for it. In years 
to come, we feel sure you would not part with this fine 
Camellia at a price, many times its original cost. 
