Here is a beautiful flowering branch of Camellia Japonica or Japanese Rose. The engraving is from the Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening – A Practical and Scientific Encyclopaedia of Horticulture, edited by George Nicholson, circa 1885. 
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Oh so pretty – thanks
You’re welcome Elaine.