bloom buds are formed, as much air as can be well admitted should be
given them.
The effect of constant watering may be fairly presumed to diminish
or destroy the vegetative , property of the small quantity of earth allotted
to each plant; therefore, when the annual repotting occurs, carefully to
take away as much of the former ball of earth as can be done without
injuring or cutting the roots, and adding fresh, cannot but be beneficial.
In common with all other shrubs, the leaves assume a darker green when
kept in the shade, and when fresh potted, if the roots have been much
disturbed, for a limited period that situation is desirable. In winter,
protection from severe frost is also needed; the Camellia and Myrtle
being nearly equally hardy. The most usual mode of propagation is
by cuttings, taken in July and August, from the Single Camellia, which
are found to strike root more readily than the double varieties-: they are
planted in pots half-filled with the Camellia Compost described, and the
upper half with fine; white sand, procured in the neighbourhood of
Croydon. The pots are plunged in a tan-bed which exhales a gentle
warmth, and closely shaded for three or four months, by which time
short fibry roots, or a cicatrice, from which they afterwards diverge, are
mostly produced. When sufficiently rooted to bear removal, they are
potted singly, in small pots, the sand being then carefully removed, as,
though efficient in the first instance in the production of fibres, its continuance
is injurious; in fact, they will, not long survive if wholly in
sand. When the young plants have attained the size of a flowering
branch of a double variety, which they generally do in three years, they
are inarched, a mode of grafting which differs from the common practice',
in the scion remaining on its parent stem till united to the plant to which
it is attached.
The terms on which it is proposed to Sell the Camellias now
figured, are, for a Plant of
CAMELLIA CHANDLERII................................. £5 5 0
„ ALTHEA FLORA .......................... 5 5 0
„ FLORIDA........................................ 4 4 0
„ ANEMONE FLORA ALBA . . . . 4 4 0
,, AITONIA........................................... 3 3 0
„ CORALLINA .................................. 3 3 0
„ INSIGNIS ........................................ 3 3 0
)3 ROSA SINENSIS (not figured) . . 3 3 0
Each Sort will be delivered as soon as 50 Plants of it are bespoke; priority
of subscription will entitle to the first choice.