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GUIDE TO THE CONSERVATORY. 



until they were in No. 12, at which shifting I plunged 

 them into the pine pit, and from this time they re- 

 ceived the same quantity of water as the pines : in 

 one year from the last shifting they produced flowers, 

 and were in great beauty in the winter. Suckers 

 are produced in abundance; and the same treat- 

 ment as for seed is requisite, that is, to shift as the 

 plant fills its pot with roots, and when it receives 

 its last shifting, then plunge it into the bark bed 

 and treat as above. The soil in which I sowed the 

 seed, was light vegetable soil, and for shifting, 

 good brown loam, decomposed dung, with a little 

 sand to keep it porous. I remain, 



Dear Sir, yours respectfully, 



Denton Gardens, J. DALBY. 



Grantham, Lincolnshire, 

 25th March, 1841. 



CAMELLIA. 



Class Monadelphia. Order, Polyandria. 

 Camellia. 



Native of China, Nepaul, Japan, 1 773. — Propaga- 

 tion, cuttings, inarching, seed. 



It is by hybridizing that so many of these beauti- 

 ful shrubs have of late been added to our collections : 

 a more lovely shrub is not easily to be found. Its 

 bright shining foliage alone would render it deserv- 

 ing attention, but when to this are added its beautiful 

 flowers of various bright colours, it becomes an 

 object of attraction to every beholder. 



