. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. CAMELLIA CAH£LLIA (after George Joseph Kamel or Camellus, a Moravian Jesuit, who traveled in Asia in the seventeenth century). Ternsiramidceie. Evergreen trees or shrubs: Ivs. alternate, short-petioled. serrate: fls. large, axillary ⢠â tially solitary, white or red ; sepals and CAMELLIA 225 shining, nnre: st
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. CAMELLIA CAH£LLIA (after George Joseph Kamel or Camellus, a Moravian Jesuit, who traveled in Asia in the seventeenth century). Ternsiramidceie. Evergreen trees or shrubs: Ivs. alternate, short-petioled. serrate: fls. large, axillary ⢠â tially solitary, white or red ; sepals and CAMELLIA 225 shining, nnre: stamen: at the base: 3-5-celled,dehis- capsule, with large, globular or ovoid seeds About 10 species mtrop and subtrop Asia, di \ ided into the sub. camellia especiallj ( JapoHica, are popuHi decorative shrubs with very showy fls. About 50 years ago one of the most appreciated greenhouse shrubs, and several hun- dred varieties were culti- vated. Of the second subgenus, C. Thea is cultivated in nearly all subtropical couii tries and in the mountainous regions ot the tropics for its leaves, which yield the well-known tea, and are an article of great commercial importance. There is a mono graph of this genus by Seemann m Trans Linn. Soc. XXII. p. 337-352. Illustrated monographs of the horticultural ^allEtlCs are: Curtis, Monogr. of the genus Camelln (1819); Baumann, Bollweiler Camelhcn saramlung (1828); Chandler, Camelh. ,i (1831); Berl4se, genre Canu Hi i a (1839); Verschaffelt, Nouvelle Moi,,, graphic du Camellia (1848-60) the li^t with 576 and the foregoing with 300 colored plates. A. Fls. sessile, erect, terminal and aril lary; cahjx-lobes deciduous Cintul lia proper. Jap6nioa, Linn. Figs. 328-331. Shrub or tree, sometimes to 40 ft., glabrous: Ivs. very shining and dark green above, ovate or elliptic, acuminate, sharply serrate Hs. red in the type, 3-5 in. across ; petal ish. China, Japan. 42. 82. F. Var. 41ba, Lodd. Fls. white. 7: (i: 243. Var. Al
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