Camellia hybrid with crimson bloom flecked with white, Souvenir d'Emile Defresne, Camellia japonica, Thea japonica.

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Camellia hybrid with crimson bloom flecked with white, Souvenir d'Emile Defresne, Camellia japonica, Thea japonica. Handcolored botanical drawn and lithographed by Smith from Dombrain's "Floral Magazine" 1872. Worthington G. Smith (1835-1917), architect, engraver and mycologist. Smith also illustrated "The Gardener's Chronicle." Henry Honywood Dombrain (1818-1905), clergyman gardener, was editor of the "Floral Magazine" from 1862 to 1873.

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License: Licensed
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