CAMELLIA CULTURE. IO 



My Camellia flowers are generally sent west to the 

 trade, a few being sent in other directions. 



For shipping, the flowers are packed in wooden boxes, 

 as Fig. 41 represents. 



These boxes are lined with cotton, only one layer of 

 flowers being put in a box, which is made to hold twenty- 

 five open flowers, or fifty half blown. 



Use plenty of cotton between each flower, putting a 

 good layer on the top, after which, nail the wooden top 

 down. 



Wrap each box separately in good strong paper. 



Ten of these boxes can be put in one bundle. 



If the weather is cold, wrap the lot of boxes in a good 

 coarse blanket, and they will carry safely, if the ther- 

 mometer is not below zero. 



During the past season, from October 2oth to Novem- 

 ber ist, my price of flowers to the trade has been six dol- 

 lars a dozen, or forty dollars per hundred. 



They are worth to me at the present time much more 

 for my retail trade. 



There is no one desirous of selling the early flowers 

 wholesale, as they command at retail seventy-five cents to 

 one dollar apiece. 



From November ist to December loth my price is two 

 dollars and forty cents a dozen, or fifteen dollars per 

 hundred. 



During the holidays, the prices depend on the quantity 

 in bloom. 



This season they bring fifteen dollars per hundred. 



I have only sent one thousand Camellias west this 



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