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Camellia japonica 'The Czar'

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37: 397: 116:. Following Breslin's death in 1912, Mr. R. W. Hodgins of Hodgins Nurseries in Essendon noticed the plant in the garden and was so impressed by the beauty of the flowers that he purchased all the stock plants from his daughter, aside from the original shrub which was thought to be too large to be moved. This original plant was eventually relocated to the 123:
Hodgkins built up a stock of some eight hundred plants of the camellia. He had difficulty selling the variety, eventually resorting to practically giving the plants away at prices that varied from two shillings and sixpence to five shillings for each plant. Discouraged by this experience, he stopped
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propagating the variety. It was only about twenty years later, when these plants had grown into large bushes, that people began to take notice and appreciate this new variety. By 1936 'The Czar' was regarded as "one of the finest of the single camellias".
104:'The Czar' grows to a height of 2 metres (6.6 ft) and has large light crimson, semi-double flowers up to 13–15 centimetres (5–6 in) across with prominent yellow stamens. 165: 365: 438: 200: 462: 342: 310: 117: 254: 229: 431: 369: 467: 424: 112:
The plant was thought to have originated from a seedling selected by landscape gardener Neil Breslin of
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A flower of the original plant in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne.
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form of 'The Czar' originating from Camellia Lodge Nursery in
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Eben Gowrie Waterhouse; Paul Jones (artist.) (1952).
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Species
Camellia japonica
Cultivar
Melbourne
camellia
Camberwell, Victoria
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
sports
variegated
Noble Park, Victoria
Camellia japonica 'Prince Frederick William'
"Camellia japonica 'The Czar'"
Archived
"Camellia 'The Czar'"
Archived


"Camellias in Australia"
Camellia trail
"Brightness in Winter"
The West Australian
Archived
"The Kitchen Garden"
The Australasian
Archived
"Historic Australian Camellias"
the original
Stub icon
Theaceae

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