Camellia Culture - Use Of Lime Water

Mrs. Geo. W. Carpenter, in Gardeners' Monthly, says: In regard to the watering of camellias with lime water, the facts are as follows: The plants are grown in large pots, and have been in them undisturbed for several years; a large reservoir on the place, containing five hundred gallons of water, receives annually about three bushels of lime; before watering the plants, the lime is usually well stirred up with the water, allowing it to settle before use. Lime water was first used to kill worms in the soil, which it effectually did. It has since been continued regularly, the thriving, healthy appearance of both roots and branches seeming to warrant its use.

Camellia Jenny Lind

Messrs. Henderson and Son gave £200 to Mr. Makenzie, of Philadelphia, in America, for the stock of this variety. The form of the flower is most exquisite; the arrangement of the petals to the very centre is perfection itself forming a true half globe; white, streaked with rosy pink. The present price is from 21*. to 63*. per plant.

Camellia Reticulata, Flore Pleno. Nat. Ord., Ternstroemiaceae

Camellia reticulata, presumed to be a native of China, appears to have been unknown in Europe till about 1820, and flowered in this country, for the first time, in 1826. The double flowered variety here described by Sir William Hooker, was forwarded to Messrs. Standish and Noble by Mr. Fortune, and though not strictly "double," the flowers have twice as many petals as the ordinary reticulata, of a brighter rosy red, firmer texture, and more regularly disposed. They are of a large size, measuring in some cases near six inches aeross. The foliage is very distinct from that of C. japonica, being strongly marked frith network, and of fine size. (Bot Mag., 4976).

The Camellia-Flowered Peach

I send you, as a curiosity, a fruit of this peach. I have not tasted it, but it smells well. - R. Glendinning. [It would seem that all the double-flowered peaches have had a common origin, judging from the quality of their fruit. That with which Mr. Glendinning has favored us is a colorless fragrant Clingstone, with an agreeable sub-acid, tender flesh, which, however, has the fault of being slightly austere and bitter.] - J. R-S., in the Gardener's Chronicle.

Camellias In Cornwall, Eng

In the gardens of J. S. Bedford, Esq., of Pendrea, near Penzance, I noticed a splendid Camellia just coming into full bloom, and bearing upwards of 2000 buds and flowers, all fine and perfect The size of the plant is 7 ft. high, 11 ft in diameter, and 38 ft in circumference. The gardener informed me that it has been in the open air throughout the past very severe winter; but a slight covering is now thrown over it, to protect it from the cold east wind and hoar frost When planted in 1848, it was only a foot high. - (Oard. Chron., p. 817).

Campanula Medium, Calycanthema Alba

A splendid new and showy variety of Canterbury Bells. The calyx forms an elegant cup round the base of the bell, being of the same beautiful color as the Corolla.

Campanula Strigosa

A dwarf hairy annual, 4-5 inches high, scarcely branched, with oblong-ovate leaves, and largish bell-shaped deep violet flowers, with a yellowish white tuber. Syria.