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THE CAMELLIA HOUSE. 



as greenhouse plants, although experience has long ago taught us that 

 they are as hardy as any plant in our shrubberies. 



Of the plants possessing sufficient beauty or fragrance to be admitted 

 into this description of house along with the CamelUa, we may mention, 

 Nerium Oleander, and its splendid varieties, Illicium floridanum, Daphne 

 odora, Luculia gratissimay Magnolia fascata, &c. And as scandent plants, 

 to be trained up under the rafters of the roof, we would recommend Ken- 

 nedy a, various species, Wistaria chinensis, Caprifolium jajmnioum, Tecoma 

 gi^andiflora, Passiflora Loudonii et Jcermesinaj Jasminum grandifiorum, &c. 

 A house so furnished, would be sufficiently interesting throughout the year, 

 and never without blossom, or the most delightful fragrance. Such a 

 house, perhaps, does not exist ; but we cannot surely be accused of extra- 

 vagance in anticipating such an event, when we consider the rapid strides 

 that the principles of order and taste are making amongst the followers of 

 Flora ; and when these principles are understood along with the practice of 

 Floriculture, we shall see houses arranged according to the rules laid down 

 in the foregoing pages. 



STRUCTURES CALCULATED FOR THE GROWTH OF CAMELLIAS. 



The varieties of Camelha, of which there are many, are found indigenous 

 in the tea districts of China and Japan, in a temperature by no means 

 high, and sometimes falhng even below the freezing point. The varieties 

 originated in this country, of which there are many, are equally hardy ; 

 and in many situations they have been found to thrive exceedingly well 

 when planted in the open borders. The plants which agree with them 

 in culture, and enumerated previously as being proper inmates of the same 

 house, are equally hardy, and have also been found to resist the cold of 

 our ordinary winters, when planted in favourable situations. Protection 

 merely from intense frosts, is aU that is required artificially, to preserve 

 tJiese plants ; but to have them flower at an early period of the season, 

 which appears to accord with their natm'al period of blooming, it is neces- 

 sary that they be placed under the protection of a glass house. 



The situation and aspect which will suit the CameUia and its allies, may 

 be of a description which would by no means suit the section last treated 

 of. There is no doubt but that these plants will thrive in houses having a 

 southern exposm'e, but that they vriU also succeed in those having an op- 

 posite exposure, is sufficiently demonstrated in practice. A Camellia house, 

 therefore, may be erected without especial regard to that particular. It 



