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many years ; I have grown very fine healthy specimens 

 seven to nine feet high, in 13-inch pots, for seven years 

 successively, by giving them some liquid manure once 

 a week, containing half-an-ounce of guano to one gallon 

 of water, not more must be given. The advantages 

 of growing the Camellia in pots or tubs are that they 

 can be removed from the house, after the flower buds 

 are formed, to a sheltered spot on the north side of a 

 high wall or hedge, where little or no sun can come to 

 them during the summer. I have found this an ex- 

 cellent method for this flower, especially when they are 

 obliged to be grown in a clear glass south-house ; under 

 such circumstances the poor Camellias suffer much. 

 The foliage loses its natural, deep glossy green, and the 

 flower buds open prematurely. 



There is but one time in the whole season when the 

 Camellia will bear a forcing temperature, and that is 

 immediately after it has flowered, till the buds are formed, 

 as I have previously said. All that is required for it at 

 other times is merely to ward off. protracted frosts. 

 For the propagation of it, I beg to refer the reader to 

 my ' Tree Planter and Plant Propagator.' 



As a commercial affair, I know of few things that 

 will better repay the trouble and outlay than a house 

 of permanent Camellias for cut flowers. We will sup- 

 pose, for instance, that such a house will take close upon 

 one hundred plants to stock it, and that these will each 

 average ten flowers the first season after planting, at 

 only 10s. per dozen. That would give more than 40. 

 worth the first year ; and without any other expense 

 except a little fuel and time. Each plant will progress 

 in productiveness year by year, for, say, as long as a 

 man is likely to live, beginning when he is a young 



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