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CAMELLIA , a genus or subgenus of See also:evergreen trees or shrubs belonging to the natural See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order Ternstroemiaceae, with thick dark shining leaves and handsome See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white or See also:rose-coloured See also:flowers. The name Camellia was given by See also:Linnaeus in See also:honour of See also:George See also:Joseph Camellus or Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit who travelled in See also:Asia and wrote an See also:account of the See also:plants of the Philippine See also:Island, Luzon, which is included in the third See also:volume of See also:John See also:Ray's Historia Plantarum (1704). See also:Modern botanists are agreed that the See also:tea-plant, placed by Linnaeus in a See also:separate genus, Thea, is too nearly allied to Camellia to admit of the two being regarded as distinct genera. Thea and Camellia are therefore now considered to represent one genus, which has been generally called Camellia, but more correctly Thea, as this name was the earlier of the two. Under the latter view Camellia is regarded as a subgenus or See also:section of Thea. It contains about eight See also:species, natives of See also:India, See also:China and See also:Japan. Most of the numerous cultivated forms are horticultural products of C. japonica, a native of China and Japan, which was introduced into See also:Europe by See also:Lord See also:Petre in 1739. The See also:wild plant has red flowers, recalling those of the wild rose, but most of the cultivated forms are See also:double. In the variety anemonaeflora nearly all the stamens have become transformed into small petaloid structures which give the See also:flower the See also:appearance of a double See also:anemone.
Another species, C. reticulata, a native of Hongkong, is also prized for its handsome flowers, larger than those of C. japonica, which are of a See also:bright rose See also:colour and as known in cultivation semi-double or double.
Both C. sasanqua and C. drupifera, the for:ner inhabiting Japan and China, the latter See also:Cochin-China and the mountains of India, are oil-yielding plants. The oil of C. sasanqua (of which sasaukwa is the native See also:Japanese name) has an agreeable odour and is used for many domestic purposes. It is obtained from the seeds by subjecting them to pressure sufficient to reduce them to a coarse See also:powder, and then boiling and again pressing the crushed material. The leaves are also used in the See also:form of a decoction by the Japanese See also:women for washing their See also:hair; and in a dried See also:state they are mixed with tea on account of their pleasant flavour. The oil of C. drupifera, which is closely allied to C. sasanqua, is used medicinally in Cochin-China. The flowers of these two species, unlike those of C. japonica and C. reticulata, are odoriferous.
Camellias, though generally grown in the cool greenhouse, are See also:hardy in the See also:south of See also:England and the south-See also:west of See also:Scotland and See also:Ireland. They grow best in a See also:rich compost of sandy See also:peat and See also:loam, and should not be allowed to get too dry at the roots; a liberal See also:supply of See also:water is especially necessary during the flowering See also:period. The best position—when grown out of doors—is one facing See also:north or north-west, with a See also:wall or hedge behind for See also:protection from See also:cold winds. See also:July is the best See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for planting; care must be taken that the roots are evenly spread, not matted into a See also:ball.
The plants are propagated by layers or cuttings, and the single-flowered ones also by seeds. Cuttings are taken in See also:August and placed in sandy peat or loam in a cold shaded See also:frame. In the following See also:spring those which have struck are placed in a See also:gentle See also:heat, and in See also:September or See also:October the rooted plants are potted off. Camellias are also propagated by grafting or inarching in See also:early spring on See also:stocks of the See also:common variety of C. japonica.
The See also:scale See also:insect sometimes attacks the camellia. To remove
the white scale, the plants are washed with a sponge and See also:solution of soft See also:soap as soon as their growth is completed, and again before the buds begin to swell. The See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown scale may be got rid of by repeated washings with one of the many insecticides, but it should be applied at a temperature of 900.
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