. 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. 339. Camellia Japonica — Lucida. CAMELLIA (after George Joseph Kamel or Camellus, a Moravian Jesuit, who traveled in Asia in the seventeenth century). Ternstrcemidcece. Evergreen trees or shrubs: Ivs. alternate, short-petioled, serrate: fls. large, axillary or terminal, usually solitary, white or red ; sepals a
. 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. 339. Camellia Japonica — Lucida. CAMELLIA (after George Joseph Kamel or Camellus, a Moravian Jesuit, who traveled in Asia in the seventeenth century). Ternstrcemidcece. Evergreen trees or shrubs: Ivs. alternate, short-petioled, serrate: fls. large, axillary or terminal, usually solitary, white or red ; sepals and petals 5 or more: stamens numerous, connate at the base: fr. a 3-5-eelled,dehis- cent capsule, with large, globular or ovoid seeds. About 10 species subtrop. Asia, di- vided into the sub- genera MucavielUa and TJiea, considered by some to be distinct genera, by some all united under Thea. The species of Eu- 328. Camellia Japonica — Abby Wilder. camellia, especially C. Japonica, are popular 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, G. Thea is cultivated in nearly all subtropical coun- tries and in the mountainous regions of 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 in Trans. Linn. Soc. XXIL p. 337-352. Illustrated monographs of the horticultural varieties are: Curtis, Monogr. of the genus Camellia (1819); Baumann, BoUweiler Camellien- sammlung (1828); Chandler, CamellieEe (1831); Berl^se, genre Camellia a (1839); Versohaffelt, Nouvelle Mono- graphie du Camellia (1848-60): the last with 576 and the foregoing with 300 colored plates. A, Fls. sessile, erect, terminal and axil- lary; calyx-lobes deciduous. Camel- lia proper. Jap6nioa, Linn. Pigs. 328-331. Shrub or tree, sometimes to 40 ft., glabrous: Ivs
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