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THE GARDENERS CHRONICLE. 
[AUGUST 15, 1874. 
his æ of all wine.” Recollections of Horace, too, 
crowd thickly upon one here, ne thinks of 
** repo: Coe bum,” d rnian pi o 
Massic, of whic enp ‘ quocunque lectum nomine 
M Apeira ” reminding of the a Wa meen y wre 
now ined from pratt Paton t Wallse The 
std coe did oo disdain the “languid ora vina,” 
but kept himself in good hum occasional 
ae he is our 
draughts of the a wine. 
authority — 
= et prisci Catonis 
Sæpe m mero caluisse virtus, 
ing ari v experience the truth of that other 
Horat 
pop nunc Sulpitiis accubat horreis, 
Spes donare novas lar; maraque, 
uere efficem 
But after a day y two, cs the novelty has passed off, 
and o other bevera rage is attain- 
shes one’s sheers of 
has a g one’s Horace?—or is it because the 
Italian Vin hogy ers do not take pains enough with 
the Soper 
rather incline to think the Vine grower is not 
entirely | to blame, any more than hey is to be 
made respo e f er hi now 
Horace, with which we close these notes :— 
t Then farewell Horace, whom I hated so, 
Not for thy faults, but mine !’ 
CAMELLIA CULTIVATION. 
THE 
ti 
ce the p! brought from Japan in 1739 2 
the Fest Father Camelli, it has continued to grow 
pub. estimation. 
lic which has incre 
varieties w have been produced by careful culti- 
i The flower is grown with cisco = in the 
in France and other c ; but as 
wers adhere to the old routing iti is well to 
ong an accoun! system at 
he pl: littl da 
to give the plants a ittle air ev 
be taken to k Sy 
ay, 
but great care m draughts from 
the plants. E aagi m leaves 
night and morning lightly, and the krss of the 
watered. The watering is most 
for drought is iiral fh era to the 
plants. ~ 
If the weather is bad, the temperature i 
e nights cold, the Camellias 
ed and wW: 
which now falls rapidly, while the humidity i pisanan 
If the japi have bee 
again about the en 
ober, —Syringe the leaves only now and then, and 
in me morning, when the sun is shin ing. 
Novemb, ring this month very little menaa 
ovember.—Dur 
lra the soil of the Camellias should then 
mn alm RE 
Bi ge i Fanuary.—Still keep the mould 
almost dry, pi maintain a low —— in the 
and 5° C 
[32°— Fahr.] that will be eoticient. = bring 
Camellias forward eo the plants must be placed in 
ouse and watered bend ant 
To wards the dot J T uary, however, the earth may 
be watered modera tely if the +s guage is open, but the 
leaves eyak en be syringed 
February. mif a weather is mild the watering may | 
Pym, Pee 
YG gee 
gen 
ESE ibe 
"Olt hy iG eae oa 
an, 
Mh re 
cps 
poses immediately, and in about two 
will cease to a or in many cases, it ma a 
even to gro : : maybe 
The Sanlaning of May is me e the most fasian 
able for plete: but it m arried out without 
danger from the begi paise oi iiy to the end of 
Fa 
It is strongly recommended not to make the 
more than half a yard deep, for the Camellia loves 
to have its roots aie the surface of che soil, when it 
ery yea 
Eve ring, the ees mould — 
be removed si the de 
pth of four or more i 
y the rare and relied 
by very rich peat-mould. The new roots ets = 
| . eee the sur urface, where Agri fia: the 
Ee 
which a 
Camelliss may, a ‘this amika t kept in fall es 
TUZET 
Z Farrer ae Si 
TIRES 
arena rere 
bs 7 4) 
Ws y i y Y n 
fe 
Pigna Taie 
FIG. 43.—VINE TRAINING IN ITALY. 
be increased, and a little air let into the house 
_ lumps in- 
eft with 
creas sate ee if sifted or broken fine it S 
for more than twenty years in the same earth without 
"Viton to Paris will find a magnificent 
Camellias 
okis time Y 
SCOTTISH me BOTANICAL 
at the Queen’s Hotel. Ni 
Dr. John S. aati 
autumn of hi hy wbich was iasi 
. . . at 
tuted at Kilin in 1878, were Bel daring es ted from 
ster i ‘August 3, set 4 
rail to Blai ie, Perthshire, eT ‘ om 
