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The soil for the Camellia is loam two parts, and 

 sand and leaf-mould or peat-earth one part ; they 

 will grow well in loam alone, provided the pots be 

 so well drained as not to retain water. The single 

 red is propagated by cuttings and layers, on which 

 the other species are propagated by grafting or in- 

 arching. The Camellia is very hardy, and requires 

 little more than forty-five or forty-eight degrees of 

 Fahrenheit when in flower ; but when the shoots are 

 growing, which is commonly a month or six weeks 

 after the flowers have faded, they should have more 

 heat by eight or ten degrees, and plenty of water 

 both at root and over the top. As soon as they have 

 done growing they should be kept cool to harden the 

 wood, and they may be placed in the open air, in a 

 sheltered and rather shady situation, from the end of 

 May to October. 



Subsect. 2. Heaths. 



The Erica comes next in order ; some of its 

 species are in flower all the winter, a few regularly 

 blossom in March, more in April, and a great variety 

 in every month to November inclusive. We shall 

 give the names of some of the most beautiful for each 

 month. 



January to March inclusive, hut chiefly in March. 

 Erica drdenSi B. R. 115, flowers red, open, roundish ; 



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