CAMELLIA CULTURE 
Camellias are ornamental 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. 
Camellias are easy to grow in a shady, sheltered location, an 
acid soil with good drainage to 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 California. Ask for special Camellia 
and azalea plant food. 
SPECIAL SELECTION CHOSEN FOR OUTSTANDING MERIT 
1 Gal. $3.00 up; 5 Gal. $5.00 up 
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. 
Bella Romana. Large light pink double flowers profusely striped, 
splashed and penciled with crimson. Popular and rare. 
Chandleri elegans. Largest and most popular peony-flowered ca- 
mellia. Soft rose with a center of tightly curled petals, often show- 
ing white markings. 
C. M. Hovey (Colonel Firey). The finest of all red Camellias. The 
flat flowers are a rich glowing crimson often 6 inches across. 
Dearest (Finlandia). 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 marbling 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. 
C amelliad jor 
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. 
High Hat. Large pale pink double flower with a center of small 
twisted petals. 
JuliaDrayten (Mathotiana). 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. One of the best in our list. 
Reticulata. Huge semi-double deep pink blooms with ruffled, irregu- 
lar petals. A popular and new variety. 
Prof. Sargent. Unusual scarlet flowers. Fully peony-type. Free 
flowering variety. Semi-dwarf. Rates among the top few of camellia 
elite. 
Te Deum (Dr. Shepherd). Very large dark red flowers quite vari- 
able in shape but always attractive for both form and color. Usually 
it is peony-type but may run semi-double to formal double even 
on the same plant. Very unusual and desirable. 
PINK PERFECTION 
12 We sell Peat Moss, Leaf Mold and Acid Plant Food in our Garden Store. 
