OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAMELLIA. 53 



phere. The following season they must be repotted, in the usual 

 compost, and in all respects treated as the blooming plants are, and 

 by the succeeding season they will be strong enough for inarching, 

 &c— the best time to do which is early in spring, just before the 

 plants begin to grow, and for budding, as soon as the young wood is 

 sufficiently ripened to be firm. We avoid giving particulars of ope- 

 rations, as a correspondent furnishes us with an article upon them, as 

 inserted in our present Number. 



ARTICLE II. 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE CAMELLIA. 



BY A KENTISH SUBSCRIBED 



As the season for blooming that much esteemed plant the Camellia 

 Japonica is now at hand, I beg to offer a few remarks on the propa- 

 gation, general culture, and likewise their respective properties: 

 should you think the following remarks worthy a station in your 

 valuable work, I shall feel great pleasure in contributing on the same 

 subject in a future number. 



[We shall be much obliged by receiving the promised favour.— Con- 

 ductor.] 



Camellias are propagated by seed, cuttings, budding, grafting, and 



inarching. 



Seed should be sown as soon as ripe ; one seed in a sixty- sized pot 

 in a composition of peat and loam, about one- fourth of latter to three- 

 fourths of former, adding a little silver sand, when most of them will 

 vegetate the following spring. 



Cuttings may be taken as soon as the young wood is ripe, which 

 will be about the end of July, or beginning of August : put in thirty- 

 two sized pots, filled half with crocks, a little turfy peat, and two 

 inches of pure white sand on the top, to insert the cutting ; as soon 

 as they have received a liberal watering to settle the sand firmly, they 

 may be placed under a hand-glass (that is air-tight) in a shady 

 situation, where they may remain till October, when they must be 

 removed to a warm tan-pit till January ; they may then be potted off 

 in single pots (being previously hardened), and placed in a close 

 frame. 



