CHAPTER II. 



DISADVANTAGES OF THE OLD METHOD OF GROWING OF 

 ALBA PLENA AND ALL DOUBLE VARIETIES, AND 

 SUPERIOR PROFITABLENESS OF THE NEW. 



IT requires three years to grow good 

 single stocks before they are in condition 

 to inarch or graft, and two years more for 

 the inarch or graft to grow, making the 

 plant five years old before it is a salable 

 double variety. During all these years 

 much labor must be expended, and con- 

 siderable space occupied in the various 

 processes of their growth. Inarching re- 

 quires a great amount of room for staging, 

 and for grafting a frame is needed inside 

 the house. 



All persons are not successful in the 

 processes of inarching or grafting, the 

 slightest relaxation of care producing dis- 

 astrous results. 



Simple as grafting may appear, I have 

 seen on my place, from one thousand graft- 

 ed Camellias only two hundred living 

 plants, the remaining eight hundred, both 



stock and graft, being dead. This failure 

 Fig. 2. 

 Single Camellia was caused by neglecting to air and keep 



the frame cool. 



