CAMELLIA

(In honour of Kamel, a Spanish Jesuit.) iltiful genus of evergreen shrubs inhabiting China and Japan. Several species are known; one of which, C. oteifora, furnishes the Chinese with abundance of oil used for various domestic purposes; others are small-flowered and unimportant; but one, C. japonica, is among the most beautiful species in the vegetable kingdom. It is from this that the multitudes of double varieties, now common ornaments of gardens in the spring, have been obtained by sowing seeds. Most of the varieties originated with the Chi-;'l>anese; but many very fine ones have been I In England and Belgium. Thev are usually cultivated in pots, but are never seen in perfection unle planted in the open ground beneath a CUM roof; under such circumstances they only require to be guarded from severe frost by some kind of heating apparatus. In some parts of England, and even near London, they are occasionally grown in Ihe open air, but with little succe . [s. 199]