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CAMELLIA JAPONICA ECLIPSIS.
P r e s s 's Eclipse Camellia.
W E owe this choice variety to Mr. Press, who informed us, in March,
1827, when we first saw it in flower, th a t it was raised by him from a
seed contained in the same capsule as th a t which produced the beautiful
variety represented at folio 24. Both of them are free-growing sorts,
resembling the Single-white, b u t they differ from it, in the ir foliage
being comparatively narrower, and flatter, and not so deeply serrated,
'fh a t of the one now before us is about th e same size, and similar in
every respect to Punctata already described.
The flower buds are large and round, very pubescent, of a pale yellowish
green colour, spotted with red.
The flowers are handsome and well formed, the petals being numerous,
and laid over one another with great regularity. They seldom
exceed three inches in diameter. Their ground colour is white, otherwise
they resemble Punctata, and Rosa Mundi, two fine seedlings raised
also by Mr. P re s s ; being similarly striped, and spotted with pale red,
in the manner of w hat is termed a ru n carnation. A short account of
them will be found in the Gardener’s Magazine, vol. ii. p. 358, where
they are stated to have a clear white ground, with p in k stripes, and to
be superior in the beauty o f their form to the Double-white. We cannot,
however, go quite so far as this, as we consider the flowei*s o f the latter
variety are not surpassed by any in cultivation. For th e specimen
from which the accompanying figure was made, we are indebted to Mr.
John Andrew Henderson, F. H. S. Nurseryman, Pine-apple Place,
Edgeware Road.