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Qive "LONGVIEW"’’V 
Qumellias 
for Lasting \Kappiness 
HE gift of a LONGVIEW Camellia will bring 
delight to the recipient each winter season, 
and. gracious loveliness to one’s garden or 
conservatory for years to come. 
For your flower-loving friend, the 
Camellia, more than any other plant, has ever 
been the gift of happiest portent. 
A LONGVIEW pot-grown Camellia will be 
gift of beauty, a joy forever. 
It would be difficult to think of any gift that could 
convey your holiday or anniversary greetings to a flower- 
loving friend more eloquently than to send a new variety of 
Camellia from LONGVIEW. 
Such a living gift would be a perpetual remembrance for 
each season, for generations to come. 
LONGVIEW pot grown Camellias have universal appeal 
for anniversaries, birthdays, Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day, Father’s 
Day, weddings and whenever you wish to present a gift that will create 
interest and enjoyment to the recipient, a living memorial and a valuable 
legacy. 
For the perfect gift, a LONGVIEW Camellia will be remembered 
long after the usual gifts are gone and forgotten. 
US 
We get from people what we give; 
we find in them what we bring; and 
the changes are not changes in them 
so much as changes in ourselves. 
—Bruce Barton. 
North Carolina, July 27, 1940 
The Camellia for my wife’s birthday 
present was received in fine shape. She was 
very well pleased with it. and I was glad 
to get her something which I also liked 
so well. W.J.S. 
Alliance, Ohio. 
1 believe those four Camellias are the 
most soul satisfying Christmas gifts that I 
have ever purchased. Thanks a million for 
raising such beauties. D.P.L. 
What I spent I had, 
What I saved, I lost. 
What I gave, I have. 
Give LONGVIEW Camellias for lasting 
happiness to the recipient. 
New York City. 
I have Just one Camellia plant—a present 
given me last fall—and it has brought so 
much happiness I want a few more in my 
greenhouse. F. T. B. 
LOT 37, LADY HUME'S BLUSH 
For accuracy of description and historical facts, we quote 
from June 1818 Botanical Cabinet, published in London: 
“This very elegant variety was first introduced by the late 
Lady A. Hume, about the year 1806; hence it has been 
generally known by the name of LADY HUME’S BLUSH.” 
In Beriese Iconographie Genre Camellia, 1842, Vol. 11, 
plate 118, the text describes it as INCARNATA (from the 
French Incarnadin, meaning flesh color), giving the same 
history, but adding, the variety was imported from China. 
The German monograph by Baumann, 1831, cites a 
similar history but adds another variety name of 
FLAVESCENS to that of INCARNATA. It was described 
by earlier writers as CARNEA and KEW BLUSH. 
Practically all horticultural books publishing descriptions 
and plates on Camellias, have described this rare Camellia 
of ethereal beauty. 
Unfortunately it has been illustrated and described as 
ELLA DRAYTON in a contemporary book on Camellias, 
which we feel sure was a printer’s error, rather than a 
mistake of the brilliant author. 
The genuine LADY HUME’S BLUSH is extremely rare 
in commerce in spite of its early introduction from China 
to Europe. 
Of all the Camellias we have propagated in years past, 
this is the only variety we find difficult to root. Flowers 
full double, 2y 2 to 3% inches in diameter, petals imbricated, 
tufted, slightly acuminnated, sometimes crenated at the 
summit, on each other. Blooms freely from November to 
February. 
We have known dozens of Camellia collectors who have 
spent considerable money buying or rather trying to buy 
the genuine LADY HUME’S BLUSH Camellia, only to learn 
in the course of time, the stock they received, proved to be 
something different. One party told us of spending $150.00 
for plants supposed to be LADY HUME’S BLUSH, but 
always turned out to be mis-named sorts. This is truly a 
connoisseur’s variety, and while higher in price than 
ordinary Camellias, it represents a real gem in floral beauty. 
"If you continually give. you will 
continually receive." 
—Old Chinese Proverb. 
