THE CAMELLIA HOUSE. 103 
many years; I have grown very fine healthy specimens 
seven to nine feet high, in 13-inch pots, for seven years 
successively, by giving them some liquid manure once 
a week, containing half-an-ounce of guano to one gallon 
of water,—not more must be given. The advantages 
of growing the Camellia in pots or tubs are that they 
can be removed from the house, after the flower buds 
are formed, to a sheltered spot on the north side of a 
high wall or hedge, where little or no sun can come to 
them during the summer. I have found this an ex- 
cellent method for this flower, especially when they are 
obliged to be grown in a clear glass south-house ; under 
such cireumstances the poor Camellias suffer much. 
The foliage loses its natural, deep glossy green, and the 
flower buds open prematurely. 
There is but one time in the whole season when the 
Camellia will bear a forcing temperature, and that is 
immediately after it has flowered, tillthe buds are formed, 
as I have previously said. All that is required for it at 
other times is merely to ward off protracted frosts. 
For the propagation of it, I beg to refer the reader to 
my ‘Tree Planter and Plant Propagator.’ 
As a commercial affair, 1 know of few things that 
will better repay the trouble and outlay than a house 
of permanent Camellias for cut flowers. We will sup- 
pose, for instance, that such a house will take close upon 
one hundred plants to stock it, and that these will each 
average ten flowers the first season after planting, at 
only 10s. per dozen. That would give more than 40/. 
worth the first year; and without any other expense 
except a little fuel and time. Each plant will progress 
in productiveness year by year, for, say, as long as a 
man is likely to live, beginning when he is a young 
