Messrs. Chandler and Buckingham, of London, entitled 

 " Camellia Britannica," and from that publication I have also 

 extracted the following remarks relative to the culture of 

 this fine class of plants, which are deemed highly appro- 

 priate. 



u The soil best adapted to the growth of Camellias is a 

 mixture of peat or bog earth and loam, in nearly equal pro- 

 portions : where the loam is peculiarly light, a less quantity 

 of peat is requisite. The earth should be well mixed and 

 passed through a coarse sieVe, reserving the detached por- 

 tions of peat and loam that will not pass the sieve to fill the 

 bottom of the pots, thereby securing a free drainage, a cir- 

 cumstance indispensable to the success of the plants. They 

 require plentiful watering at the respective periods of growth 

 and flowering; during the latter, if not regularly supplied, 

 the bloom buds will infallibly fall off instead of expanding 

 into flower; at other times a regular moderate supply is es- 

 sential, and the plants will improve in appearance by occa- 

 sionally sprinkling the foliage. The time for fresh potting 

 is generally when the spring growth has hardened ; and the 

 dormant blossoms for n,:xt season may then be detected in 

 the rounded form of the leading buds, which afterwards 

 usually split into a growing and a blooming bud. After 

 potting the plants may be placed in the open air, or retained 

 in the Green-house, according to the season ia which they 

 are wanted to flower. When families spend the winter in 

 the city, it is desirable to have them bloom a little before 

 Christmas, and if the house is kept up to the warmth of a 

 regular hot-house in February and March, the spring growth 

 will be anticipated two months, and an early, almost an au- 

 tumnal bloom, will be the consequence. With this treat- 

 ment the regular watering is the only material circum- 

 stance, and when the bloom buds are formed, as much air as 

 can be well admitted should be given them. 



4t The effect of constant watering may be fairly presumed 

 to diminish or destroy the vegetative property of the small 

 quantity of earth allotted to each plant ; therefore, when the 

 annual repotting occurs, to carefully take away as much of 

 the former ball of earth as can be clone without cutting or in- 

 juring the roots, and adding fresh, cannot but be beneficial. 

 In common with all other shrubs, the leaves assume a 

 darker green when kept in the shade, and when fresh potted, 

 if the roots have been much disturbed, for a limited period 

 that situation is desirable. In winter protection from severe 



