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the loss of their flower-buds generally results. They 

 succeed best in a cool and partially shaded situation. 

 If exposed to the full sun, they lose the deep green 

 colour of their foliage for which, when in health, 

 they are so conspicuous and become sickly-looking 

 and yellow. The Chinese, who pay great attention to 

 their cultivation, always employ them as under-shrubs. 

 The best situation in our gardens would be where they 

 could enjoy a partial shade from trees, without being 

 overhung by them. The soil they prefer is a rich 

 light loam, or loam and peat. We have seen them 

 succeed very well in a rich peat border with American 

 plants. But, whatever the soil may be, it must be 

 well drained. The effect of stagnant water is certain 

 death, yet no plant enjoys an abundance of moisture 

 more than the Camellia. 



CAMELLIA. . 



(Yellow Camellia.) 



For a long time it has been known that the Chinese 

 possessed a yellow Camellia, and much anxiety has 

 been evinced among gardeners and botanists to obtain 

 it. "We have at length been fortunate enough to 

 procure plants, from which flowers were produced last 

 year. They are of the kind known as anemone- 

 flowered, of a pale yellow or lemon-colour, the centre 

 petals being the darkest. It flowers very freely, and 

 both in habit and foliage is very neat. The leaves are 

 smaller than in the ordinary kinds. Mr. Fortune 

 believes it will be much hardier than any other known 



