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Title: Paxton's Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants
Year: 1841 (1840s)
Authors: Paxton, Sir Joseph, 1803-1865.
Subjects: Botany--Periodicals Flowers--Periodicals.
Publisher: London: W. S. Orr and Co.
Contributing Library: Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, McLean Library
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mmer, and placed in a cold frame during winter ; the rest being planted in acorner of the garden which is well screened by hedges. Those in the former positionare safer, because they can be more efifectually preserved from moisture in winter,though the others are seldom injured from any source. When grown ihthe open ground, it seems especially desirable to secure themagainst worms, ants, &c., which do not eat or deface them, but cast up the earthinto the cavities formed by the axils of their leaves, and thus either smother theirtender shoots, or cause water to collect around them, to their serious damage ordestruction. To remedy this, with the lower kinds, a stiff adhesive earth is to beselected; while around the base of such as that now under consideration, a fewsmall pebbles may be laid, which will obviate the necessity for any other than themost common soil. By dividing the plant in the spring, a multiplication, equal to the rate of growthof the species, can be at once ensured.
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I ■f///ir///4 /a/ij./ir//ttt /a/ij.M^^:ic .y/wot/i^i^ 53 CAMELLIA JAPONICA; mr. ALBERTIL (PKINCE Alberts japan camellia.) CLASS. ORDER. MONADELPHIA. POLYANDRIA. NATURAL ORDIrlR, TERNSTROMIACE^. Genrrtc Character.—Calyx five-parted, coriaceous, surrounded lielow with mauy smaller scales. Petalsfive or more, lar^re, joined at the base, encircling a hypogynous disk. Filaments united below intoa crown, attached to the petals. Anthers nearly ovate. Germen many-seeded. Stijle one.Stigmas three. Capsule coriaceous, pulvinate, or abortively globose, three-furrowed, three-seeded. Specific Character,—Plant shrubby. Leaves alternate, coriaceous, acutely serrated, acuminate.Flowers axillary or terminal, subsessile or pedunculate, single or double. Var. Albertii.—Floivers perfectly double; outer petals roundish, emarginate, lying somewliat flatly;central ones small, partially erect, of various forms ; of a whitish or light blush-coloured ground,irregularly striped or blotched, lo

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