CALCEOLARIA _pinnata_ foliis pinnatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. p. 64._ CALCEOLARIA foliis scabiosae vulgaris. _Fewill Peruv. 3, t. 12. fig. 7._ [Illustration: 41] There being no English name to this plant, we have adopted that of _Slipper-wort_, in imitation of _Calceolaria_, which is derived from _Calceolus_, a little shoe or slipper. This species of Calceolaria is one of the many plants introduced into our gardens, since the time of MILLER: it is an annual, a native of Peru, and, of course, tender: though by no means a common plant in our gardens, it is as easily raised from seed as any plant whatever. These are to be sown on a gentle hot-bed in the spring; the seedlings, when of a proper size, are to be transplanted into the borders of the flower-garden, where they will flower, ripen, and scatter their seeds; but being a small delicate plant, whose beauties require a close inspection, it appears to most advantage in a tan stove, in which, as it will grow from cuttings, it may be had to flower all the year through, by planting them in succession. This latter mode of treatment is used by Mr. HOY, Gardener to his Grace of Northumberland, at Sion-House, where this plant may be seen in great perfection. [42] ~Camellia Japonica. Rose Camellia.~ _Class and Order._ ~Monadelphia Polyandria.~ _Generic Character._ _Calyx_ imbricatus, polyphyllus: foliolis interioribus majoribus. _Specific Character and Synonyms._ CAMELLIA _japonica_ foliis acute serratis acuminatis. _Lin. Syst. Vegetab. ed. 14. p. 632._ _Thunberg Fl. Japon. t. 273._ TSUBAKI _Kempfer Amoen. 850. t. 851._ ROSA chinensis. _Ed. av. 2. p. 67. t. 67._ THEA chinensis pimentae jamaicensis folio, flore roseo. _Pet. Gaz. t. 33. fig. 4._ [Illustration: 42] This most beautiful tree, though long since figured and described, as may be seen by the above synonyms, was a stranger to our gardens in the time of MILLER, or at least it is not noticed in the last edition of his Dictionary. It is a native both of China and Japan. THUNBERG, in his _Flora Japonica_, describes it as growing every where in the groves and gardens of Japan, where it becomes a prodigiously large and tall tree, highly esteemed by the natives for the elegance of its large and very variable blossoms, and its evergreen leaves; it is there found with single and double flowers, which also are white, red, and purple, and produced from April to October. Representations of this flower are frequently met with in Chinese paintings. With us, the _Camellia_ is generally treated as a stove plant, and propagated by layers; it is sometimes placed in the green-house; but it appears to us to be one of the properest plants imaginable for the conservatory. At some future time it may, perhaps, not be uncommon to treat it as a _Laurustinus_ or _Magnolia_: the high price at which it has hitherto been sold, may have prevented its being hazarded in this way.