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nations, Auriculas/' &c. This shrewd remark is likely to be 

 verified much earlier than we anticipated. 



It has been often said that these plants are difficult of 

 cultivation. This is unfounded; indeed, they are the reverse 

 if put in a soil congenial to their nature. When highly 

 manured soils are given, which are poisonous to the plants, 

 sickness or death will inevitably ensue; but this cannot be 

 attributed to the delicacy of their nature. We can unhe- 

 sitatingly say there is no green-house plant more hardy or 

 easier of cultivation, provided they are kept at an even 

 temperature, say from 40 to 45 during night, and 45 to 

 50 during day, and they are equally so in the parlour, if 

 not kept confined in a room where there is a continuance of 

 drying fire heat, their constitution not agreeing with an arid 

 atmosphere. 



SOWING CAMELLIA SEED. 



These seeds ripen generally during September and October, 

 and must be sown as soon as ripe ; plant them about one inch 

 under ground into pots filled with leaf mould, loam, and white 

 sand, in equal portions ; if the pots after sowing can be placed 

 in a hot-house, they will vegetate in about six weeiis, and be 

 ready to pot into single pots in February. Many of them 

 will bloom in the second year; but if heat is not accessible, 

 keep the pots in the warmest part of the green-house, and 

 give an occasional watering, and the plants will appear some 

 time in May and June : they will be ready to pot into single 

 pots in September, and after doing so put th.^m into a close 

 frame, and shade them from the sun for jx few weeks ; use .*-t 

 this potting only about one-fifth of sand- 



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AIRING the house should be strictly attended to. Every 

 day that there is no frost it may b* admitted largely* and 



