8o CAMELLIA CULTURE. 



5th. Do not omit the daily syringing and the thorough 

 watering when your plants are dry. You wash your face 

 every day, but you do not ordinarily take a full bath 

 oftener than once a week. Treat your Camellias as you 

 treat yourself, and they will be the better for it. 



6th. Keep your alba plena Camellias in the house dur- 

 ing the summer, if they can be properly cared for there, 

 unless they have been crowded through the winter and 

 spring months, then they will be the better for having 

 more room. 



yth. If you do put them out, let it be done on a rainy 

 day; prune them carefully first; plunge them up to the rim 

 of the pot; do not put them too near together; put them 

 out after the last frost in the spring, and take them up 

 before there is a possibility of frost in the fall. 



8th. Be careful to keep all insect pests from them, red 

 spider, scale, mealy bug, etc., etc., following the directions 

 given elsewhere in this book. 



pth. When they are in the greenhouse, air them freely 

 as directed. 



loth. Don't try experiments with them; you will lose 

 too much if you do. Leave that to the men who have 

 thousands of them growing. 



