36 CAMELLIA CULTURE. 



and attention paid in watering, shading, airing, syringing, 

 and keeping his house and beds clean and in perfect 

 order, also to the great fondness which he manifested for 

 this particular branch of the business. 



I have had in my employ, at different times, men who 

 called themselves regular propagators, and who had 

 worked at this branch of the business twenty years. 

 They could place double the quantity of cuttings in the 

 sand-bed, in the same time that the lad to whom I re- 

 ferred could, but, in the work of bringing the plants, 

 rooted, from the cutting-bed, he far surpassed those prop- 

 agators of long experience. 



From the above statement, you will readily perceive 

 that propagation does not depend as much on skill and 

 knowledge as it does on the attention and care given to 

 the cuttings. 



