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slips will form their roots in the space of from 

 fifteen to twenty days. 



You are already aware, ladies, that the most 

 beautiful varieties of the camellia, although they 

 can take root from the slips, produce, by this 

 means of propagating them, only ill-shaped, puny 

 plants, that are little disposed to flower well. Your 

 slips should be taken only from single-flowered 

 camellias ; or, if from the double-flowered, then 

 the white or the pink only. Prom these you can 

 obtain all the slips you need ; and these slips will 

 become shrubs as vigorous as you can desire. By 

 grafting on these shrubs, when a year or eighteen 

 months old, you may multiply the choicest species 

 and varieties; their bloom will be all that you 

 can wish. 



Grafting is another charming operation of hor- 

 ticulture, which you could not easily realize in 

 the cold portable conservatory. In the warm one, 

 on the contrary, you may graft all sorts of orna- 

 mental shrubs, and the success of your grafts is 

 assured beforehand ; not one will fail. 



