<i>Camellia reticulata</i>, a hand-coloured engraving after a drawing by Alfred Chandler (1804-1896), from <i>Illustrations and Descriptions of the Plants which Compose the Natural Order Camellieae</i> (1831) by Chandler and William Beattie Booth. This plant was introduced into England by the Horticultural Society's collector John Damper Parks in 1824 and named by John Lindley.
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2008-04-27
scanned from <i>The Royal Horticultural Society Diary 2004</i>