30 CAMELLIA CULTURE. 



Camellias do not grow and make wood as fast as the 

 soft-wooded class of plants ; therefore judgment and care 

 must necessarily be used in taking the cuttings from the 

 parent plant 



Suppose a person who has twelve Camellia plants, and 

 for which he has paid twelve dollars. He would not be 

 able to get over two cuttings of the five- jointed kinds 

 from each of the twelve plants, in November, without 

 taking branches which have flower buds on. 



The twelve plants would only produce twenty-four 

 cuttings of Fig. 5. Fifty cuttings will be produced by 

 the two-jointed system, as represented in Fig. 6 ; and by 

 the one-jointed system, as Fig. 7 represents, one hundred 

 or more cuttings will be obtained. 



The wood of this plant is valuable on account of its 

 slow growth. 



