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PROFESSOR SARGENT 
Camellias 
Rare and Unusual Varieties 
$2.00 and up, depending on size and variety. 
Many other varieties, including novelties, available at the Nursery. 
Alba plena. Finest of all white camellias. Fully double flowers often 
6 inches across. Lovely and delicate. 
Chandleri elegans. Largest and most popular peony-flowered ca- 
mellia. Soft rose with a center of tightly curled petals, often show- 
ing white markings. 
Colonel Firey. The finest of all red camellias. The flat flowers are 
a rich glowing crimson often 6 inches across. 
Finlandia (Dearest). Popular semi-double white of exceptional 
beauty. Porcelain texture of the petals is beautiful with yellow of 
stamens. 
Debutante. One of the finest newer varieties with beautiful fully 
double ball-shaped flowers in a delicate shade of pink. Ideal as 
a corsage flower. 
Donckelari. Very bright and showy flowers of medium size are 
double but show a few stamens at the center. The heavy textured 
petals are rich red with various markings and marbeling of white. 
Slow bushy growth. Excellent foliage. 
Emperor of Russia. One of the more unusual red camellias. Large 
outer petals appear to enclose two or three smaller flowers, which 
really are the twisted and recurved smaller central petals. Bright 
scarlet. Dwarf habit. 
Emperor Wilhelm (Gigantea). One of the finest peony-type ca- 
mellias grown. Flowers larger than chandleri with the broad rounded 
outer petals and tight center of petaloids possessing a heavy wax- 
like texture and color a bright red variously marked and blotched 
with white. 
Francine. In every way this variety is like Chandleri elegans—in 
size of flower, form and blooming and growth habit but the color 
is a uniform Camellia rose throughout. 
Glen 40. This is the most talked of new red camellia. Flowers are 
large fully double with rounded overlapping petals. The bright red 
color is enhanced by salmon undertones. 
Julia Drayton. Huge flowers, often 7 inches across, are uniformly 
brilliant scarlet, beautifully veined. Double with high pointed 
center. Very fine. 
Kumasaka. Large loose double rose-pink flowers with a pleasing 
fragrance. Center petals curled and twisted but showing the 
golden stamens. Many large flowers; good growth. 
Laurel Leaf (Lallarook). Although named for the foliage which is 
large and laurel-like in character it has very lovely pink flowers, 
too. Flowers are over four inches across, fully double with imbri- 
cated petals just the thing for a corsage. 
Lotus. If you want a white camellia with character this is hard 
to beat. The flowers are huge, bowl shaped often hiding the golden 
stamens at the center with large pure white petals which resemble 
nothing more than a white Lotus. 
Pope Pius IX. Large double red flowers. Good growth, light col- 
ored foliage. New and rare, one of the best in our list. 

Camellias 
Ornamental evergreen shrubs of exquisite beauty and highly 
prized for their flowers during the winter months. After 
blossoming the dark green glossy foliage and dense habit of 
growth make an attractive appearance in the garden. Many 
varieties listed here are much sought after for their scarcity 
is well known. 
Camellias are easy to grow in a shady, sheltered location, an 
acid soil with good drainage in which generous quantities 
of leaf mold or peat have been added. They require generous 
amounts of water during the growing season but this should 
never become stagnant for lack of drainage. Withhold water 
and fertilizer during the dormant season when the flowers 
appear. All are hardy in Southern California. 


