264 ON THE CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OK THE CAMELLIA. 



ARTICLE IV. 



ON AN EASY MODE OF FUMIGATING A GREENHOUSE, PIT, ETC. 



BY A CONSTANT READER AND SUBSCRIBER. 



If you think the following worth inserting in the Cabinet, you are 

 at liberty to do so. 



Not having a house, I am obliged to winter my plants in a cold 

 pit, which I have found a difficulty in fumigating until I thought of 

 the following plan : — Take a piece of touchpaper, and lay on it a thin 

 layer of tobacco ; then roll it up, and tie loosely. Light one end, 

 and place it in a flower-pan in the house or pit. I think half an 

 ounce, used in this way, is equal to an ounce with the bellows ; and 

 it is not a tithe the trouble, as it docs not require any attention after 

 lighted. 



Winchester, 2nd Nov., 1840. 



ARTICLE V. 



ON THE CULTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE CAMELLIA. 



BY A NORTH BRITON. 



This very popular family has always the best effect when cultivated 

 in a house by themselves; and as there are certain seasons in which 

 this genus requires a treatment almost peculiar to itself, their sepa- 

 rate culture is therefore the more necessary. The most successful 

 and generally- adopted method of propagating this family is by 

 inarching or grafting. By either of these means each variety is per- 

 petuated; but new varieties are only to be obtained from seeds, and 

 as these seldom ripen, at least in any quantity, in this country, and 

 few are imported in a fit state to vegetate, the propagation of new 

 varieties is consequently a matter of some importance ; as in most 

 other cases it is from single flowering plants that seeds are to be 

 expected, although sometimes the semi-double flowers also produce 

 them, and of these the common single red is the most prolific in 

 affording seed. Sometimes seedlings so obtained are used only for 

 stocks, whereon to work other rather kinds, although sometimes they 

 are kept till they attain a flowering state to ascertain their relative 



