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remain until they have produced roots. The soil light sandy loam, with goad 

 drainage; an abundance of water may be given with advantage; but it was a 

 great disadvantage to keep them at a great distance from the glass, where they 

 will not mature their buds. When the roots of camellias were coiled, he found 

 it beneficial to tie haybands around the stems, to retain the moisture, by which 

 they were much invigorated. 



Mr Fish saw camellias flower pretty well lo feet and 1G feet irom the glass ; 

 but, about three or four feet from the glass, he observed them to flower better 

 and more abundantly. He would recommend crown-glass to be used tor ca- 

 mellia houses, as defects in the glass are likely to concentrate the rays ot the 

 sun on the leaves of the plants, and to give the blotched appearance often to be 

 observed on them. He has kept up a succession of flowering plants for seven 

 mouths in the year. The temperature, when flowering, to be 60 degrees in the 

 day, 50 to 55 degrees at night. The soil, one quarter leaf-mould, one quarter 

 sand, one quarter peat, and one quarter loam. He considered good strong ad- 

 hesive loam would be the best for growing large plants, but would not answer so 

 well for flowering them. He agreed with Mr. Shearer, in the advantage of 

 disbudding to produce large flowers ; and also that water, by deficient drainage, 

 stagnates and sours in the soil, which is the principal cause of buds tailing oft. 

 He did not think the camellia a plant of easy culture, as it requires a great deal 

 of attention to produce good forced flowers. He disrooted camellias which were 

 in a bad state, then plunged them in dung-heat, with the temperature at 

 50 degrees, increasing as vegetation proceeded, allowing it to range as high as 



80 degrees, with sunshine. ... . " . 



Mr?Caie objected to bottom heat, as being injurious by exciting too much 

 the plant that had been disrooted. 



Mr. Massey sg.eed with Mr. Caie in the disadvantage of bottom heat. He 

 saw fine camellias at Enfield, kept in tubs, and put out in the summer in a 

 shadv place. He thinks too much water to be the cause of the buds falling off. 

 Mr. Caie believed that plants, at a great distance from the glass, were easily 

 affected by too much moisture, as the air of the house would contain two parts 

 hydrogen and one part oxygen. The open air is composed of twenty parts 

 oxygen and eighty nitrogen, consequently there can be no carbon fixed in the 



V Mr.T. Keane saw camellia and orange trees much injured by water, which 

 were recovered by withholding it. He also considered that too much water was 

 the cause of the buds falling off. 



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sand. To be potted when done flowering. The temperature to be kept between 

 45 and 50 degrees at night, and 75 or 80 degrees in the day To be removed to 

 a*hady situation in the autumn, which is of advantage to mature he wood. He 

 saw orange trees grown well in 60 degrees bottom heat, and then gradually 

 inured to'the temperature of the orange-house. 



Mr. Fish agreed with Mr. O'Loughlin in the advantage of bottom heat ioi 

 oran-e trees. He cut out the decayed roots, headed the branches at the same 

 time? and plunged them in bottom heat, where they grew luxuriantly. From 

 the rimilanty of the two genera, he considered it was confirmatory of the benefit 

 of bottom heat for the camellias. „.„.+„„ 



Mr. O'Loughlin approved of removing some of the buds, if too close or oo 

 numerous on the plant. He considered cuttings from the single red to be the 

 best for stocks. He did not believe that tongueing was injurious to gratis and 

 recommended that the pots should be well drained with bnck-rubbish at the 

 bottom, with rough peat over that, to the depth oi 5 or 6 inches as thehealth of 

 the plant mainly depended upon good drainage. lie saw, m Dorsetshi.e, fine 

 camellias, eight feet to nine feet high, planted out in the open air. Protected by 

 a few thatched hurdles: they were not injured by the severe host of 1837-8. 



Mr. W. Keane believed that sudden changes ot temperature were the causes 

 of buds falling off. The heat he considers best to flower then. » ■ 60, degrees , by 

 day, and 50 degrees at night. When done flowering, the heat to be raised to 



