;  February  3,  1809. 
JOURJS^AL  OR  HOnTrCLIlTUIlE  AND  COTTAGE  GARDE  NEE. 
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CAMELLIA  SASANQUA. 
.  TliotKiH  the  flowers  of  this  species  are  too  fugitive  to  warrant  it  ever 
,  attaining  anything  like  the  popularity  of  C.  japonica,  it  is  still  well  worth  a 
the  colour  in  the  different  varieties  ranging  from  white  to  bright  red, 
and  the  size  from  2  to  4  inches  across.  Both  the  type  and  its  varieties 
grow  freely,  and  soon  make  good  sized,  well  shaped  bushes  if  treated  in 
a  similar  manner  to  C.  japonica.  Most  of  the  varieties  are  under 
Fia.  17.— CAMELLIA  SASANQLA. 
place  in  the  greenhouse,  as  its  single  or  semi-double  flowers  are  exceedingly 
pretty  and  produced  in  profusion  when  the  plants  are  well  grown,  It  is 
a  .Japanese  plant  of  dwarf  bushy  habit.  Tho  leaves  are  oblong,  2  to 
3  inches  long  and  three-quarters  of  an  inch  wide.  Tho  flowers  (fig.  17) 
are  very  variable,  some  plants  having  single,  some  semi-double  flowers. 
Japanese  names — names  which  in  Japan  are  no  doubt  highly  esteemed, 
!)ut  in  England  strike  terror  into  tho  gardener’s  heart,  as,  for  instance, 
C.  S.  var.  Fukuzutsumi  and  Azumamshiki.  The  typo  is  figured  in 
“Thunb.  FI.  Japan,”  p,  273,  t.  30,  and  a  variety  in  tho  “  Hotanicaf 
Magazine,”  t.  2080. — W.  D. 
