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Fig. 3 shows my Camellia cutting bench, forty feet 

 long by four feet wide. It contains five thousand alba 

 plena cuttings in sand. 



Have heat underneath this bench, so as to give gentle 

 bottom heat when required. 



On this bed there are three inches of sand. The cut- 

 tings are two feet from the glass. 



I would advise all those who do not grow Camellias 

 very extensively to use, for propagation, wooden boxes 

 fourteen inches square, three inches deep with sand. For 

 a sketch of this box, see Fig. 4. 



Fig. 4. Fourteen-inch square box of cuttings. Two eyes. 



The cuttings will require very little heat until they are 

 one month or six weeks in the sand. 



By using boxes for the cuttings, they can be moved 

 easily to the heated part of the house, and where they can 

 get the benefit of bottom heat. 



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