CHAPTER VI. 



ENGRAVING SHOWING THE KIND OF CUTTING FOR THE 



SINGLE STOCK, OR THE DOUBLE RED VARIETIES. 



ADVANTAGES OF LONG CUTTINGS. NUMBER OF CUT- 

 TINGS YOU WILL GET FROM A MODERATE SIZED 

 PLANT. 



FIGURE 7 represents the propagation of the Camellia 

 from a single eye. From this system a greater number 



of cuttings can be obtained 

 than from any other way. The 

 process of growing from a sin- 

 gle eye will do very well for the 

 single and double red varieties. 

 But I do not recommend it for 

 alba plena, which will root and 

 grow, but not until it has re- 

 mained a long time in the sand- 

 bed. And after they are rooted, 

 three-fourths of them will have 

 what is generally termed by 

 growers blind eyes, or the eyes 

 have rotted and fallen out. (See Chapter X, on this de- 

 fect after being rooted.) 



For all varieties of Camellias, should you have plenty 

 of wood to cut from, adopt the cuttings as represented by 

 Figs. 5 and 6. It will take the one-jointed cutting, as 

 shown in Fig. 7, twelve months' from the time it is put in 



the sand-bed, to grow to the size of Fig. 5 cuttings. 



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Fig. 7- 

 Cutting from a single eye. 



