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pe.\t alone; but it is too light, and the 

 plants do not live long in it. 



Summer Culture. The bloom will be 

 over before summer commences. It will 

 then be necessary to give the Camellia 

 a little artificial heat, to encourage a free 

 growth. A moist atmosphere, also, must 

 be produced, by syringing the plants, 

 walks, and walls every morning and 

 evening, and keeping the floor deluged 

 with water. Shade from bright sunshine, 

 and give air, to reduce the temperature to 

 65 by day, and 55 by night. Continue 

 this liberal treatment till the buds and 

 the new leaves are fully formed; then 

 give more air, and about the middle of 

 July pot them, using plenty of drainage : 

 and set them out of doors, behind a north 

 wall, where the sun cannot reach them 

 after 10 o'clock. There they may re- 

 main till the autumn. 



Winter Culture. As soon as there is 

 the least fear of frost, prepare for housing 

 the plants for the winter. Cleanse and 

 repair the house, wash the pots, and top- 

 dress the soil before arranging them in 

 the house. Give abundance of air, both 

 night and day, when there is no frost ; 

 and when there is frost, only just use 

 fire enough to keep it out. This treat- 

 ment is proper till the blooming-season 

 is over. Water must be judiciously ap- 

 plied ; too much or too little will cause 

 the buds to drop off prematurely. 



Insects. The white scale is the most 

 troublesome insect. Strong soap-water 

 will destroy it. The Mack fly, also, some- 

 times makes its appearance, and is very 

 injurious to the flower-buds. That and 

 the green fly may be destroyed in the 

 usual way by smoking with tobacco. 

 The black fly requires a stronger dose. 



Diseases. Sometimes young plants will 

 die suddenly, and if the roots are ex- 

 amined, a brownness will be observed at 

 the ends. This arises from stagnant water, 

 caused by imperfect drainage. To prevent 

 it, pay particular attention to that point. 



CAMOMILE, or CHAMOMILE. A'nthemis 

 no' bills. 



Varieties. There are two kinds, the 

 common single species and the double- 

 flowering. 



Soil and Situation. They require a 

 poor, dry soil, otherwise they are less 

 powerful in their medicinal qualities. 

 They will grow in almost any situation, 

 but the more open the better. 



Time and mode of Propagation, Gene- 



rally by parting the roots, and by offsets,, 

 planted from the close of February until 

 the end of May; the -earlier, however, 

 the better, though they be planted in 

 the autumn. Seed-sowing may be in any 

 of the early spring months ; but, as part- 

 ing the roots gives much less trouble, it 

 is generally pursued. Still, after a lapse 

 of several years, raise fresh plants, the 

 old ones often then declining. 



Cultivation. They should not be plant- 

 ed nearer to each other than eighteen 

 inches. Water must be given mode- 

 rately at the time of planting, if dry 

 weather. If raised from seed, the seed- 

 lings require no further cultivation than 

 to be kept free from weeds in the seed- 

 bed, and when three or four inches 

 high to be thinned to about six inches 

 apart, and may remain thus until the 

 following spring, then to be thinned and 

 remain, or to be removed to the above- 

 mentioned distance apart. A very small 

 bed will supply the largest family. 



Gathering. In July the flowers are 

 generally in perfection for gathering. 

 The period for performing it, however, 

 must be governed by the flowers them- 

 selves, as the best time is when they are 

 just opened. Particular care must be 

 taken to dry them thoroughly before they 

 are stored, otherwise they will become 

 mouldy. If seed be required, the only 

 attention necessary is to leave some of 

 the first-opening flowers ungathered : the 

 seed will ripen early in September, when 

 it may be dried and rubbed out. 



CAMPA'NULA. Bell-Flower. (The di- 

 minutive of campana, a bell ; literally, a 

 little bell. Nat. ord., Bellworts [Cam- 

 panulacese]. Linn., 5-Pentaudria 1- 

 Monogynia.) 



The annuals are chiefly pretty, low-growing 

 plants, the seed of which may be sown in the 

 common border, at the end of March. The bi- 

 ennials may be sown in April or May ; many of 

 them will bloom the same year. By cuttings, a 

 perennial habit will be given to many of them. 

 Perennials, chiefly by division of the plant and 

 roots. Those from the West Indies, New Hoi- 

 land, and the South of Europe, require the pro- 

 tection of a greenhouse, or cold pit, in winter. 

 Even the well-known, beautiful window-plant, 

 C. pyramida'lis, makes a poor show in the open 

 air in most places. Common soil for most of 

 them ; a little peat and dung for those in pots. 



HARDY ANNUALS. 



C, Broussonet ia'na (Broussonet's). 1. Blue. 

 July. Mogadore. 1825. 



dicho'toma (forked-branched) 1. Blue. July. 



Sicily. 1820. 



drabcefo'li'a (draba-leaved). 1 . Pale blue. 



June. Athens. 1823. 



