102 THE FORCING GARDEN. 



The loss referred to is in the flowers for a season, 

 but as the Camellia is such an abundant bearer of flowers 

 (which are frequently three-fourths too numerous on a 

 plant) that they have to be thinned out to get fine 

 specimens, no real loss is sustained by partially cutting 

 back some of the leading branches, if the minor ones 

 are left to flower and fill up. So that by this annual 

 or biennial cutting back of some of the plants they will 

 never get top large for the house ; and instead of run- 

 ning up to head, and becoming barren of foliage, and 

 of course of flower, they will maintain a well-clothed 

 appearance down to the ground. 



A house of the size of the above, will take forty- 

 eight good strong plants for the middle bed, which may 

 be 15 feet wide, taking four rows of plants at a distance 

 of 3 feet apart each way ; the pathways will be 3 feet 

 wide, with a border of 2 feet next the walls, all round 

 the house. The walls will take about forty plants to 

 cover them, ultimately ; thus eighty-eight will be re- 

 quired to fill such a house at a moderate calculation. 

 These may consist of any desirable sorts, which will 

 cost in good strong plants, at trade prices, 251. to 30L 

 per 100 well set with flower buds if obtained in the 

 autumn, about October, when they may be planted ; or, 

 if deferred till after the flower, and then planted as 1 

 have said, which is perhaps the safest, plants of the 

 same size may be had for a lower price. And, if I may 

 be permitted to recommend where to get them both 

 good and cheap, I should say of John Standish & Co., 

 of the Eoyal Nurseries, Ascot, Berkshire, or of Charles 

 Turner of Slough. 



The Camellia, for cut flowers, may be grown in large 

 pots. Pots 15 inches in diameter will do for them for 



