THE CAMELLIA HOBBY 
hobby may keep one broke, but it will also keep one 
: mentally alive. 
It drains off dammed up energies which could not 
be released in the business world, stimulates one 
socially by contact with other enthusiasts and 
increases mental alertness as more and more fields of 
knowledge are involved.” 
The above bit of philosophy was written by Dr. 
Samuel N. Stevens, dean of the University College 
at Northwestern University. 
Collecting and growing Camellias, represents one of 
most soul satisfying and delightful of hobbies. 
A love for Camellia flowers is an innate quality of man. 
The sense of beauty is as vital to the complete existence of the 
individual and of the race as is the sense of justice. 
Once the Camellia hobby “GETS” you, . . . you will be 
engarrisoned against ennui. 
It has been said most Camellia collectors are “queer”. But 
aren’t we all? If you are enjoying the mental stimulus of 
growing and flowering Camellias as a hobby, you’ll appreciate 
it as a real remedy for mental fag ... a specific that is sure 
to keep you from being a patient in a psychiatric ward. 
Centuries ago, the old Chinese philosopher, Chang Ch’ao, 
wrote: 
“It is of essential importance for flowers to have butterflies, 
mountains to have springs, rocks to have moss, rivers and lakes 
to have water-cress, tall trees to have creepers, and for MEN 
TO HAVE HOBBIES.” 
Let the pursuit of the Camellia hobby bring you lasting joy . . . new 
thrills, and renewed enthusiasm every winter season, as each succeeding 
Camellia bud unfolds its petals and reveals their faultless beauty . . . 
purity and brilliancy of their radiant gem-like colors. 
You will cherish your LONGVIEW Camellias, and each blooming 
season your enthusiasm for these colorful flowers adds a wealth of 
pleasure and yield returns in magnificent flowers out of all proportions 
to their cost. 
Horticulture is, next to music, the most sensitive of the fine 
arts. Properly allied to Architecture, garden-making is as near 
as a man may get to the Divine functions. 
—Maurice Hewlett. 
We've heard it said: 
“Hobbies wash away from the soul the 
dust of everyday life." 
Even the great philosopher COXFCCICS 
said: 
“I cannot rank with an old gardener." 
Many a rich man longs for the time he 
can retire Just to grow Camellias. 
“Gardening has already been called our 
national hobby and iff this is not true today, 
it looks like a safe prophecy for tomorrow." 
Arthur Stanley. 
“It is rare that a person with a hobby goes 
crazy," declares a psychologist. It seems that 
a hobby serves as an inoculation against 
insanity—that is, by going goofy over some 
interest a person can avoid going nuts 
about something else. 
Dorothy Biddle, editor of Garden Digest, 
recently said: “Gardening is more than a 
hobby. It is a philosophy of life. To be 
a gardener you start out with an essential 
quality, imagination. 
“Gardening is a hopeful philosophy of 
life a confident philosophy, it is a 
philosophy of beauty. People with gardens 
are happy people." 
Wllmer, La.. March 17-1938 
Camellias ordered from you December, 
1937, all bloomed and I am crazy about 
them. Every one seeing them rave over 
their beauty. P. S. 
Mcssapequa, L. I., X. Y. March 21-1910 
Received Camellias in fine condition 
and am simply crazy about them. J.F. 
West Point, X. Y. Sept. Hi-1940 
Your Camellias are affording a lot of 
pleasure. R. G. A. 
Puyallup, Wash. Aug. 20-1940 
Your Camellias are doing nicely. Every¬ 
one is enthusiastic about them. L.F.F. 
Dover, Mass. May 22, 1940 
Last fall you sent me a beautiful 
Camellia bush with many buds. It bloomed 
in a most wonderful way. It was my 
pride and joy through the early spring. 
Mrs. H. II. P. 
Springfield. Ill. Feb. 29-1940 
Tlie most enjoyable part of my green¬ 
house this winter has been my LOXGVIEW 
Camellias. The plants you sent me 
produced a large number of the most 
beautiful flowers we had in the greenhouse, 
and I do not except my orchid plants 
which, up to this time, have certainly 
been my pets. F. F. H. 
Birmingham, Ala. Xov. 9-40 
There Is nothing in the world more 
beautiful and satisfactory than our 
Camellias. Mrs. II. S. 
Augusta, Ga. Xov. 12-1940 
I am still in the maniac ward when 
it comes to Camellias. II. ('. II. 
No Colored illustrations in tliis Catologue 
Many flower lovers ask why we do 
not use colored illustrations of Camel¬ 
lias in our catalogues. 
In the pages of our modest catalogue 
on Camellias, no flashy colors have been 
used to influence you to buy. There’s 
no wild statements, fraudulently or 
mis-named Camellias advertised. Just 
simple, truthful facts, telling about our 
pot grown Camellias, and the wealth 
of pleasure they will bring you.. 
Yes, a Camellia catalogue with all 
the flowers illustrated in colors, is what 
every Camellia collector hopes for. 
But alas, with Camellias, color is an 
illusive and perishable thing, for 
Camellias are the most capricious of 
plants. Neither artist nor engraver can 
adequately reproduce the sublime 
grandeur, exquisite beauty, with the 
rich brilliancy and purity of variable 
colors in these flowers. The color o^ 
Camellia flowers is so elusive . . . yet 
so alluring, because nature in its secret 
conspiracy often produces as many as 
seven distinct color combinations in 
blooms on a single plant. 
One can never be certain about 
some Camellia plants producing red 
flowers one season, and just as likely 
have white and red variegated blos¬ 
soms, or perhaps solid pink flowers the 
following seasons. Camellias are a 
heritage from China, to lovers of 
Oriental floral beauty. 
Just as China, mysterious and aloof, 
the store house of innumerable fine 
flowering plants, and home of Camel¬ 
lias . . . Camellias, too, are the mys¬ 
terious glinting gems of floriculture. 
These plants will bring new joys and 
renewed enthusiasm to your life each 
winter season as their chatoyant blos¬ 
soms reveal their eye-intriguing beauty. 
Camellias are heirlooms of Yester¬ 
years, reborn aristocrats of today. 
There can be no Heirlooms for Tomor¬ 
row, unless you buy Camellias of 
quality. Now, and for years to come, 
the LONGVIEW pot grown Camellias 
you buy today, will bring you new 
happiness, new friends, and renewed 
delights for generations. 
Those who are happy do not observe how time 
goes by.—Chinese proverb. LOXGVIEW Camellias 
bring new happiness to their owners. 
There is no highroad to happiness or misfortune; 
every man brings them on himself.—Chinese 
proverb. Growing LOXGVIEW Camellias will 
bring you new happiness. 
