BELLA ROMANA 
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 pzat have been added. They require generous 
amounts of water during the growing season but this should 
never become stagnant for lack of drainage. Withhoid fertil- 
izer after the flower buds have set. All are hardy in Southern 
California. 
ELENA NOBILE 
EXQUISITE | 
Priced according to size and variety. 
Many other varieties, including novelties, available at the Nursery. 
Alba plena. Finest of all formal white camellias. Fully double 
flowers often 6 inches across. Lovely and delicate. 
Aloha (Arajishi). Early flowering red peony-type camellia. Flowers 
are fully double almost fluffy in appearance, of good size and at- 
tractive color. 
Bella Romana. Large light pink double flowers profusely striped, 
splashed and pencilled with crimson. Popular and rare. 
Chandleri elegans. Largest and most popular pzony-flowered ca- 
mellia. Soft rose with a center of tightly curled petals, often showing 
white markings. 
C. M. Wilson. Very new and very choice sport of Chandleri elegans, 
and like it in every respect except color. This new variety is a 
solid, clear, light pink. Most desirable. 
Colonel Firey. The finest of all red camellias. The flat flowers are 
a rich glowing crimson often 6 inches across. 
Covina. Compact and free-flowering variety. Flowers informal 
double rose-red, a non-fading bright color. 
Daikagura. Earliest of the larger sorts to flower. Double with a cen- 
ter of small twisted petals, bright rose with white splashes. Fragrant. 
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 (True Southern). Very bright and showy flowers of large 
size are semi-double but show a few stamens at the center. The 
heavy textured petals are rich red with various markings and mar- 
bling of white. Slow bushy growth. Excellent foliage. 
Elena Nobile. Medium size double flame red flowers show a few 
stamens in the center. A free flowering late variety of exceptional 
merit. 
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. 
