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CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Far. fore pleno rosco.
Rose-coloured Camellia.
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MONADELPHIA POLYANDRIA. Threads united. Many Chives.
ESSENTIAI. GENERIC CHARACTER.
C A L Y X irabrïcatus, polyphyllus : foliolis interioribus
raajoribus.
E M P A L E M E N T tiled, many-leaved : the inner
leaves the largest.
SPECIRIC CHARACTER.
C A M E L L I A floribns roséis: petalis exterioribus
n i a g n i s , patentibus: interioribus parvis, erectis :
Ibliis latis, nitidis.
C A M E L L I A with rose-coloured flowers ; the outer
petals are large and spreading : the inner
ones small and upright: the leaves broad and,
shilling.
CAMELLIA JAPONICA. Var. fore pleno incarnato.
Flesh-coloured Camellia.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
C A M E L L I A foliis conspicuè nen-osis : floribus petalis
numerosis, pallide carneis.
C A M E L L I A with leaves strongly nerved : flowers
with numerous petals, of a pale flesh colour.
So hicvh in estimation is every variation of the Camellia Japónica, that even a new and rare plant is not
consid°ered more interesting, nor of so much value as one of these beautiful varieties; the number of
which is now extended to sixteen, at least so enumerated hy cultivators, and all considered as perfectly
distinct. The rose-coloured variety was introduced to the royal gardens a tKew about 1808, and the
pale variety was first cultivated in the conservatory of the late Lady Amelia Hume, we believe, in 180S.
It is nearly allied to the white, and in severe winters so little colour is visible, that Mrs. Beaumont
(with whom this flowered last December at Bretton Hall) informed me it was only by comparing it
with the whi t e that it could positively be said to possess' any colour; but, upon comparison, a blush was
evident. So delicate a test is only requisite in rigid seasons from the want of sun. Both these varieties
flower from December till March.
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