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" They are afterwards to be sprinkled tection in severe weather, like the Myr- 

 with water, and placed in a close frame tie; and if the plants are kept just above 

 or pit until they begin to root afresh, the freezing-point, they will succeed 

 and by degrees exposed to the air. The much better than when grown in a high 

 succeeding season they may be potted I temperature. 



in the same soil as the other Camellias, 

 and similarly treated, and many of the 



" At the time they are making their 

 growth, an increase of heat will be ad- 



plants will then have attained sufficient vantageous." — Gard. Chron. 

 size and strength for inarching or bud- Grafting. — Dr. Lindley says, "For 

 ding, and all of them by the following grafting, well-ripened young shoots 



should be taken when they are just be- 

 ginning to grow, and before the buds 

 are far advanced. 



"They should be worked under hand- 

 glasses in a stove or forcing-house. 



season. 



" The best time for inarching is early 

 in the spring, just before the plants be- 

 gin to grow, and for budding as soon 

 as the new wood is sufficiently ripened ; 



but it may be done at almost any season vvhere a temperature of from 60° to 70° 



of the vear." — Gard. Chron. 



is kept up. Whip grafting without the 



Culture. — The same authorities state tongue is perhaps the best method ; and 

 that, " The proper season for the gene- it is advisable to retain a few leaves on 

 ral shifting is when the young growth: the stock above the graft, in order to 

 has hardened, and the blossom buds for: draw on the sap. The single red makes 

 next year can be detected at the ex- the best stock, as it strikes freely from 

 tremity of the shoots. i cuttings." — Gard. Chron. 



"After shifting all those that require Forcing. — Mr. Robert Errington, 

 it, they may be placed in the open gardener at Charlton Park, has pub- 

 air, or retained in the green-house; as , lished a most excellent essay upon this 

 much air as possible should be admit-' subject, from which the following are 

 ted, and occasionally sprinkling the : extracts : — 



foliage will improve the appearance, as ' "Draining and Potting. — In potting, 

 ■well as be beneficial to the health of the , place three or four potsherds first, the 



plants. 



one overlapping the other, to insure a 



" At all times attention must be paid ■ certain and speedy passage for the 

 to watering them properly, the roots water, then a sprinkling of pounded 

 being apt to become matted in the pots, I crocks, the size of horse-beans; and 

 80 as to render the ball of earth im- finally another sprinkling, finer still ; on 

 pervious to moisture ; hence it is neces- this put a thin layer of sphagnum, which 

 sary to see that the ball' of earth is has been dried, but not decomposed, 

 moistened by the water poured upon it, ' " Re-pot soon after they have made 

 instead of the web of fibres only. This | their young growth — as soon, in fact, as 

 renders an examination of the roots, or ! the young leaves are perfectly develop- 

 reducing and replanting them at least ed, and the end of the young wood, at 

 once a year, a measure almost indis- the point of junction with the wood of 



pensable. 



the former year, begins to turn a little 



At the respective periods of growth brown. In potting, the soil should be 

 and flowering, the plants will require rather lumpy than otherwise, and tole- 

 plentiful watering ; during the latter, if rably dry, and should be rather put 

 not regularly supplied, the bloom-buds round the ball in regular layers, and 

 will infallibly fall off, instead of ex- dressed tolerably firm, but not hard, as 

 panding into flower; at other times a the layers are thrown in, pressing every 

 regular moderate supply is essential, layer a little, so that no crevice be left. 

 The eff'ect of constant watering may be The ball of the plant should be rather 

 presumed to diminish or destroy the moist at shifting, and when it is in a poi- 

 fertility of the small quantity of earth bound state it should be immersed in 

 allotted to each plant, therefore w'hen tepid water for an hour, about three 

 the annual re-potting occurs, carefully days previous, allowing a day or two for 

 take away as much of the former ball ; the sriperfluous water to drain away be- 

 of earth as can be done without injuring ' fore potting; place the ball immediately 

 or cutting the roots. The Camellia { on the sphagnum. 



maybe considered as a hardy green- I "JReriod of Growth. — Thethermome- 

 liouse plant, requiring only a slight pro- j ter should be kept from 60° to 65'' by 



