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CAMELLIA CULTURE. 



The cutting of five eyes long will not root any better 

 than the two eye. Your gain will evidently be made in 

 the size of the plant when it is ready for potting. 



One great advantage to be derived from the five-eyed 

 cutting is, that when the plant is rooted and ready for 

 potting it will, in all probability, have three shoots, each 

 shoot being one inch in length. The plant will be of a 



very good size, while the two- 

 eyed cutting will only make 

 one shoot 



When the wood of alba 

 plena is not very abundant, 

 it would be much the better 

 plan to adopt the cutting of 

 two eyes, as shown in Fig. 6. 

 At the top of the cutting 

 there is one eye with a leaf. 

 The lower eye with the leaf 

 cut off is where the roots will 

 form. Where the wood is 

 scarce, this cutting will be 

 best and most profitable foi 

 use by amateurs and those oi 

 limited experience in Camellia 

 growing. 



Alba plena should alway 

 be made in this way, as wel 

 Fi 6 as all plants of the hard wood 



Cuttings two eyes long. kind. 



