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7 or 8 inch pots, now giving plenty of air. 
They will flower nicely through the latter 
part of summer, and to help them give 
manure-water once or twice a_ week. 
After blooming the shoots should be well 
shortened back, and the plants given 
ordinary greenhouse treatment through 
the autumn and winter. Early in spring 
give pots 2 or 3 inches larger ; remove a 
portion of the old soil and replace it 
with new of a good rich description such 
as hitherto advised. Tie the shoots well 
out as they advance, and treat in other 
respects asin the previous spring. This 
season they will make good blooming 
specimens, and will be very useful for 
conservatory decoration. To assist the 
natural disposition to keep on flowering 
give manure-water regularly. When the 
autumn comes round they may either be 
discarded to make way for younger stock, 
or again cut back and managed through 
the winter and following spring as before ; 
if required they will last by this kind of 
treatment for several years. 
Insects.—Calceolarias are not much 
affected with any insects except aphides, 
which are very partial to them. The 
shoots should be looked over every ten 
days or fortnight, and immediately any of 
the insects are discovered fumigate slightly, 
repeating the application until the aphides 
are killed. These plants do not like severe 
smoking. 
CALLICARPA PURPUREA. 
The different species of the genus 
Callicarpa are most remarkable for the 
pretty appearance of their fruit. C. 
purpurea, an evergreen stove shrub, is the 
most desirable kind ; it is easily managed 
and is very effective when its numerous 
berries have attained their bright colour. 
It strikes readily from shoot cuttings put 
in in spring in sand, kept moist, close, and 
shaded in a temperature of 70°. When 
well rooted they should be moved singly 
into 3-inch pots and kept in the same 
temperature until the young plants get 
established ; afterwards 5° less will be 
enough in the night, and it should be 
allowed to rise by day in proportion to the 
state of the weather. Pinch out the points 
of the shoots, and keep the plants near the 
glass; give air in the day, with a little 
shade when necessary. As soon as the soil 
is full of roots give 8 or 9 inch pots, and 
again stop the points, putting a stick to sup- 
port the leader. Through the summer treat 
as required by the ordinary winter de- 
corative plants that want to be kept closer, 
and in an atmosphere somewhat more 
Greenhouse and Stove Plants. 
CAMELLIA, 
moist than that of a greenhouse, with a 
little shade in bright weather. When the 
pots have got well filled with roots, manure- 
water will be beneficial. In the winter 
place the plants where they can be kept in 
the night at a heat of about 55°. When: 
the berries get fully coloured the plants 
are very effective, and remain so for @ 
lengthened period. It is a native of 
India. 
InsEcts.—Aphides sometimes attack this 
Callicarpa ; the remedy is fumigation with 
tobacco. 
CAMELLIA. 
Among the immense number of green- 
house flowering plants that have been 
introduced into this country, it would be 
difficult to point to any that surpass the 
Camellia either in the general estimation 
in which it is held, or in its adaptation to 
the various purposes for which flowers are 
required. True, neither the plant, taken 
as a whole, nor its individual flowers, can 
lay claim to the graceful elegance possessed 
by many things in cultivation; yet, in a 
well-grown example of Camellia, especially 
of a white variety, clothed with its chaste 
flowers, backed by ample, glossy, deep- 
green foliage, there is a massive grandeur 
equalled by few plants. Nor do the 
flowers individually, when fully blown, 
and grouped with the choicest productions 
of the stove or Orchid-house in a vase or 
epergne, or the half-opened buds that grace 
a bridal bouquet, lose by comparison with 
the fairest of flowers grown. When we 
add that, if desirable, the flowers may be 
had nearly the year round, that the plant 
is easily grown, and that with fair treatment 
it will last individually half a century, we 
have an assemblage of properties that place 
it in the front rank of flowering subjects. 
The first of the species that found its 
way to this country came before the 
middle of the last century; but it was 
about 1824, when the double white (alba 
plena) and the red semi-double reticulata 
made their appearance, that their value 
was fairly understood. These were followed 
by numerous others, of more or less merit, 
and from these have sprung the numbers 
of grand varieties that we now possess, and 
which have so well rewarded the care and 
patience of the seedling-raiser. Some of 
the semi-double varieties seed tolerably 
freely, and the seeds can be induced to 
vegetate without difficulty ; but the raising 
of new varieties may be safely left in the 
hands of those who interest themselves in 
this kind of work, and it will be better to 
confine these remarks to the general details 
of cultivation. 
