
CAMELLIA JAPONICA 
CAMELLIA NAMES 
It is a well-known fact that the names of 
camellias are confused. Unfortunately, some 
varieties may be purchased under several dif- 
ferent names from different nurseries. We have 
made every effort to avoid adding to this con- 
fusion, and we have tried to list the varieties in 
this catalog under the names we believe they 
are most generally known by in the trade. We 
have purchased camellias from practically every 
grower in the United States, and based on our 
experience and observations, we have listed as 
many of the synonyms as we know for the 
varieties we are offering for sale, in an effort to 
keep our customers from ordering varieties they 
already have under some other name. We do 
not believe that most of the varieties of camellias 
in existence today will ever again be known by 
the names under which they were listed a century 
or more ago, for the reason that old textbooks 
on the subject are not, and never will be, avail- 
able to most collectors or propagators of camel- 
lias, and the few who possess such reference 
books either have not made much progress in 
identifying present-day varieties under the 
names listed in such textbooks, or have not made 
their discoveries known to the general public. 
We have never knowingly given a new name to 
a camellia when we were aware that it was 
generally known by some name already estab- 
lished, and we shall always try to assist our 
customers by giving them the benefit of our 
experience with duplicate names of varieties. 
We have purposely avoided designating ca- 
mellias by numbers, because we find that often 
when a person has bought a camellia under some 
number given to it by a particular nursery, he 
is keenly disappointed to find that he either 
already has the same camellia under a well- 
established name, or could have obtained the 
same camellia at a much cheaper price, had he 
been advised of the name by which it was 
generally designated. 
We have a collection of colored slides, show- 
ing most of the varieties of camellias that we 
have, so that if anyone is in doubt as to what 
variety he is buying, we shall be glad to show 
him an accurate picture of the flower. 
We now have in charge of our retail depart- 
ment Mrs. Rosamond Ballard, formerly with 
Mr. E. A. MclIlhenny’s Jungle Gardens at Avery 
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