CAMELLIA. 



CAMPANULA. 



placed on a hard bottom, to prevent the 

 ingress of worms, and the plant should be 

 watered alternately with clean water and 

 weak liquid manure, and finally removed 

 ander glass in October. With such treat- 

 ment their blossoms will expand in Novem- 

 ber or December. In January, at the 

 'atest, camellias that have been subjected 

 :o the treatment described will be in full 

 bloom, or advancing to this point, and 

 then the gardener's care should be to pro- 

 tect the young expanding buds from cold 

 :urrents of air, and to use as little fire-heat 

 is possible. 



Named camellias, all hybrid varieties of 

 Camellia Jafonica^ are to be obtained at 

 moderate rates from any nurseryman or 

 grower in any part of the United Kingdom. 

 They are very numerous far too numerous 

 n fact for a list to be inserted here. In 

 colour they are white, all shades of pink, 

 .ose, red, and deep red, sometimes shaded 

 jvith a deeper tint, and stiiped white and 

 -ed, or pink and red. 



Camellias in open air. 



Among the evergreen plants which are 

 suitable for the shrubbery or border in 

 some of the most southern parts of Eng- 

 '.and, none can excel the Camellia ; and 

 there are a few varieties of this beautiful 

 shrub which do well in the open ground. 

 Any grower will indicate varieties of this 

 plant which are best suited to open-air 

 cultivation. It may be useful to make 

 one or two observations upon their culture 

 and the soil best adapted for them. The 

 soil in which they are planted should be a 

 mixture of peat, leaf- mould, and cow-dung, 

 about two feet deep. Great care should 

 be taken that the plants never suffer from 

 drought. After flowering they should be 

 freely watered with liquid manure, es- 

 pecially if the season be dry. The sur- 

 face of the ground just round the stems 

 of the plants may frequently, with very 



good effect, be paved with small stones, 

 which assist in keeping the roots cool and 

 moist. As a general rule, the borders on 

 which camellias are planted should not be 

 disturbed more than is necessary to remove 

 the surface weeds. A top-dressing of fresh 

 soil may, with advantage, be given to them 

 every winter. So treated, the hardy sorts 

 of camellias will be found as hardy as most 

 of our common evergreens, and require no 

 protection, except, perhaps, in an unusually 

 severe winter, when a few fir boughs may 

 be placed before or around them. The 

 snow should never be allowed to rest upon 

 their branches. Some growers of camel- 

 lias in the open ground bind straw round 

 the stems of their plants, about five or six 

 inches from the ground, when winter sets 

 in ; this is found a very efficient protection 

 against frost. 



Campan'ula (/. ord. cwsipa- 

 nula'cese). 



A genus of exceedingly beautiful plants, 

 annuals, and hardy biennials ami PC- 



CAMPANULA PYRAMIDALIS. 



rennials, characterised by the variety of 

 their colours, profusion and duration of 

 their bloom. Some of them .re M- 

 markable for their stately growtk, at heat 



